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While I don’t ride or die for Pete Buttigieg, the vitriol directed at him is completely insane. “When I was younger I wished that I could have taken a pill to turn me straight; but I have accepted and embraced my identity now” is an *extremely* common sentiment from Millennial and older gay people!

I think there's a lot of straight people with a little bit of latent homophobia, and when some of their favorite gays say it's ok to bash the bad gays they jump at the opportunity

We have come along way from my youth and I know of two brothers, the significantly younger one came out first, the older one much later with trauma. I do think, not as an insult, but some of the most fervent homophobes are gay, as though they could hide it/gain acceptance by being the most extreme

And I think that blaming closeted gay men for homophobia is misguided when the overwhelming majority of homophobes are 100% straight people who get off on condemning people for indulging in a “sin” that they have never been tempted to commit.