A few more facts...

• The Holocaust started with the persecution of Communists in the wake of the Reichstag fire. There were many other victims: Jews, of course, but the number also included gay men, Gypsies, Christian pacifists, Social Democrats, the mentally retarded, the physically disabled (especially people with CP), and even to a small extent young people who liked jazz (or what the Nazis called "niggerjazz"). It is not "Jew hating" to point out these other groups that were also singled out for persecution and death.

• Our pop culture bombards us with much more in-your-face heterosexuality than it does with homosexuality, so much so that most of us fail to take notice how much.

• For all of MG's concerns about us queers flaunting our lifestyle in his face, my own experience is that the vast majority of lesbians and gay men are indistinguishable from the rest of the population. Furthermore, there are many people who are identified as lesbians or gay men when in fact they are straight. This is especially true of men in the theater, dance, and certain other performing arts, who have many gay-like mannerisms regardless of their actual sexual orientation. And it is also true of the straight men dandies who are now called metrosexuals. It is even more true of women in traditionally masculine occupations, especially women in positions of political power. How many times have Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, and Hillary Clinton have been referred to as dykes? More than I can count!

• Ah, here's to killer! Homsexual and heterosexual are not absolutes, nor are they mutually exclusive. Most of us enjoy -- that's the right word! -- aspects of both, even though our orientation may be primarily one way or the other. And just maybe those people who protest the loudest about lesbians and gays flaunting their sexuality are the same people who have the most difficulty dealing with whatever homosexual feelings they have.