re: #33 (Unlike Some People)

Wingnut concepts playing into homophobia:

* “Demographic winter” – “Civilization as we know it is ending because white anglo-saxon people are not breeding enough. Gays are partially at fault.”
* The deep connection between American Conservatism and Religious Fundamentalism – They just kind of need each other as political forces, which is why conservative arguments for marriage equality fall on deaf ears.
* I think Romantic Heretic in #1 said it best. The follow-up question to that, “why do even powerless people support this?” is a core problem of conservatism or maybe politics in general: People acting/deciding/voting against their own best interest/self-interest. Exploitations of democracy. I think in the case of the black community which suffers from poverty and consequently makes families suffer, there is a greater propensity, at least among the religious segment, to become susceptible to bullshit arguments about marriage equality further weakening family ties.

More than that. Gayness in urban Black and Hispanic communities is kept on the down low. HIV/AIDS infection as a percentage of the population is higher in urban Black and Hispanic communities and occurs because an individual that would be gay in a white background (more acceptable) is under stronger pressure to be straight, thus engaging more women in risky situations. The HIV/AIDS numbers are much higher among Black and Hispanic women in such situations, which really skews the numbers.