I had a bunch of notes I took a while back when I was struggling with coming out, and this is just one of the things I copied down off the Internet. I can't remember where it even came from and I really would like to credit the author. If you know who the author is, please don't hesitate to email me and let me know.
"When you attach a stigma to being gay (as social conservatives do), when you make it nearly impossible to have healthy, mainstream gay relationships (as social conservatives have done and seek to do again), then don't be surprised when people enter into unhealthy, outside-the-mainstream gay relationships. Two generations ago, society made it practically impossible for gays to find each other anywhere other than behind park bushes or in public toilets and then expressed shock that gays were having sex behind park bushes and in public toilets. It was a Riisian trap, steering people into pathetic existences and then chastising them for their patheticness."
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