My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.
Straight people are everywhere!
I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
Men were never expected to be monogamous.
The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
