I have many gay friends and I hire gays for my business. I had a gay couple over for dinner just the other day and they invited me to their upcoming wedding.
Deliberately cutting yourself off from gays is sad because you are missing out on life. What are you afraid of?
I belong to three historical collector clubs, each of which has several gay members. If you were also my friend and I invited you to a meeting would you embarrass me by causing public scene?
I urge you to re-examine your attitude. If you advertise your business to the public I believe you are obligated to serve anyone not disorderly (or too smelly if you happen to have a walk-in type of business).
As a private citizen you would be missing out on some colorful and interesting characters, I have had some wonderfully stimulating discussions with gay friend and associates....my life would have been duller without.
Some of the most dreadful people I’ve met were gay, gayness doesn’t seem to correlate with anything. Perhaps one can only learn this by not deliberately shutting oneself off from others.
A recent client of mine was an elderly ‘queen’ and when he passed I found among his effects his Purple Heart for storming a beach during WWII and getting wounded. I also found pictures of him performing as a drag queen. He most likely thought of each episode as being from his ‘glory days’. I have great sympathy for any good person trying to get through life with a little fulfillment and dignity. I try not to go out of my way to make things more difficult for others.
There are many,*many*,things I cut myself off from and I have a rather full and satisfying life.Among the many things I eschew are...drugs....child molesters....Marxists...thieves....moslems...and many other things.
There's nothing that contact with perverts would do to make my life better.In any way.
But that's just me I guess.
What is lost on most people is that these people have some serious mental illness underpinning their "gay-ness."
In general, 40% of them were molested as children, and their number one cause of death is suicide.
And this does not even get in to the massive quantities and varieties of sexually transmitted diseases kept alive by the gay community.
How many millions of people died because homosexuals spread AIDS everywhere?
And now they've got another flavor of lunacy running around in their ranks. "Bug Chasers" are tying to get diseases. You are apparently only familiar with the Smurf side of "gayness." There is a deep dark ugly horrible side to it that they work very hard to keep out of public view.
Except of course where they have no fear of the larger public finding out.