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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-17-06 02:37 PM
Response to Reply #11
44. Outing isn't homophobia.
We're not for outing everyone against their will, just those hypocrites that are trying to destroy the civil rights of people like myself.

It would only be homophobic if the reason for the outing is to point at the orientation as somehow bad. Obviously, gays who out hypocrites don't think there's anything wrong with homosexuality (there isn't).

That you seem to leap to the conclusion that announcing someone is gay is bad - as if the gayness itself is bad - should cause you to reexamine just how comfortable you really are with us queers.

Ironically, your stance is more homophobic than you may realize - not that I think it's intentional. I think you're coming from a good place, but are completely clueless as to how it looks from this side, which makes sense, as you're not gay.

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