I’m getting so tired of the homophobia from the ‘left’. But please, make a hundred more posts about how some right wing politician loves cock because they support Trump. That’s not a sentiment that needs to be examined at all
(This is not an invitation to tell me how that’s not akchully about gay people or to drag out a handful of gay republicans to complain about, when you know people do it for the straight ones too.)
If I assume good intentions in the people you are talking about, maybe this is a case of different assumed contexts between speaker and listener. Some people have just seen the “another republican known for actively harming LGBT+ folks revealed as closeted self-loathing asshole” cliche so many times that it’s a go-to comment for that specific type of person.
So it wouldn’t be that all people you don’t like are gay. More like the outspoken conservatives you don’t like. Admittedly that’s still painting with a broad brush.
With all that said, I can’t assume good intentions across the board so there are plenty of people for whom you are correct.
And it gets even worse with the apparent popularity of pedophilia among the world’s elite. Conservatives have already spent many years framing any sex stuff they personally find icky to be equally evil and bad for society.
I hear what you’re saying, but assuming these men (and it’s almost always men, I rarely hear homophobic women get called lesbians) are gay and not just straight homophobes is itself homophobic, because it places the blame for homophobia on queer people. As if the decision to be closeted happens in a vacuum, or as if the majority of closeted people are homophobic and don’t want to be out.
It’s nothing more than confirmation bias; the straight Republican bigots are unremarkable to most people, so they don’t remember them.