I don't even ask for them to go back in the closet, just to not flaunt it in an "in your face" manner. I have some friends that are "out" and they abhor that kind of behavior as much as most straights do.
And they tell me, it's an awful lot easier for them to be out with conservative people, than the be "out" as conservatives to gay people.
And we're the intolerant ones?
"And we're the intolerant ones?"
There was a time when I could have cared less who was gay, what they were up to, etc. Now that they started shoving it in my face on what seems like a daily basis and hating me because I think they should keep it in the bedroom.
I has a friend that came out later in life and you couldn't really tell he was gay. He found that he absoloutely hated "the lifestyle". My favorite quote from him: Being gay isn't so bad if you can avoid all the queers and queens.
My cousin is gay and is the polar opposite. Flagrant, prissy, hate-filled attention-whore who acts cultured and talks Broadway with his friends even though he's never been near New York. He got POed at me because I refused to go see "Kinsey" with him and his "friend of the week". Closed-minded, he called me, even though I knew far more about Kinsey than he did. He's 37 and never dated anyone older than college age. I had dinner with them a few months ago and his "friend" couldn't even order a beer. He also refuses to date white people. He teaches band in a middle school. Scary.