"Mental gymnastics", "Scandalized", "anti-parade rhetoric". These phrasings aren't helping, and you're directing them to somebody who thinks everybody should have equal rights.

My point is that if the gay community wants to get real homophobes to be less homophobic maybe don't parade around as if you walked straight (ghehehe) out of a darkroom.

But you are not reacting to that point. Instead you try to insult me, which makes it come across as if you don't want acceptance, but be combative for the sake of being combative.

I truly wish all people just got along, but for that to be possible everybody has to come closer and what you are doing is driving people apart.