You can't blame him for being homophobic, it's never cool to be supportive of gay people (trust me I'm gay) and certainly not his generation.
I saw on a tshirt at Mardis Gras once, in Sydney "It's gay being gay". This sums it up totally for me.
Dear CT64 :tiphat:
I would never blame anyone for being gay. Gay or lesbian people do not decide to become gays or lesbians, it´s given by birth, not something you can decide yourself at the age from 9-15. I mean who in the whole wide world, would voluntarely attract all sorts of unpleasant reviews on, who you are sexually, and according to this what you´re worth as a human being? - whether being a male or female and interested in a man or a woman?
Gays, lesbians, heteros - whatever are as equal to me as the next guy or gal.
But J. Edgar Hoover, as the Director of the FBI (Federel Bullying Inc.) was a cheat and a fake himself, hiding his natural sexual intensions. He even played the dog races with his local bookie, who incidently was owned by the very same organized crime/the Mafia, he - J. Edgar Hoover himself - denied excisted.
My personal hope for any human being whether gay, lesbian or hetero-sexual are, that they as males or females will endure LOVE together with another human being of each their own choice, as long as it´s a concensual agreement between two adults.
Of course being gay in the US in 2008, will keep you from becoming a public figure and having a job in politics on the Hill or locally - of course having Presidential blow jobs in the Oral Office do not count - the typical double morals equal to the USA and worse the republican organisation Moral Majority. Just look to the former Governor of New Jersey, who stepped out of the closet as a gay man and knew by doing so, he would automaticly have to resign his job. Hipocrisy, is the name.
That´s rediculous, anti-human and worse it´s the typical condescending behaviour for people, who are yet soooooooooooo morally?
You CT64 should feel proud of yourself as a human being not being afraid to admit to yourself being gay. You are as equal to any one else as me, sir Corno Dolce, Mat, Ms. Margaret and Master Krummhorn etc.etc. even to The Lord, who did not condemn gays or lesbians towards heteros, in stead the human beings, living on planet earth, did. Never The Lord: We´re all children of God and welcome in the house of The Lord.
Respect towards you CT64 for being honest!!
Hats of sailors for CT64 :tiphat::tiphat::tiphat::tiphat: