Please stop implying Trump is gay as an insult. [View all]

[Ms. Toad]

There have been at least a dozen threads and/or posts in GD over the last two days implying Trump is performing oral sex on Putin.

You know darn well that you are not celebrating Trump owning his sexuality when you post pictures of Trump kneeling before Putin unbuckling his belt, or graphically describe Trump rimming Putin. You are using it as a put down. It doesn't work as a put-down unless you are also implying that being gay is a bad thing.

There are many ways to suggest that Trump's worship of Putin (and other dictators) is inappropriate - without suggesting that the reason it is inappropriate is related to a sexual relationship between them. I'm sure you have enough creativity to use something that does not use my life as a battering ram against Trump.

I'm sick to death of encountering this meme on DU - and of having to justify my outrage at, once again, being used as an insult - or worse - being told by people who are not LGBT that it can't possibly be an insult because they don't have a homophobic bone in their body. That attitude is no better than, "some of my best friends are gay." It is sad, when I consider it a good day if I avoid a 24-hour alert time-out for alerting on a homophobic post. It's been months since a jury actually hid any that I am aware of.

I may, or may not, respond to comments trashing my opinion here - but I fully expect them. A lot of LGBT people have left the site, and most of us just suffer in silence, since it is clear that most of DU just doesn't get it. Our lives are still being threatened - especially the lives of trans individuals. Our rights are threatened - we can still be fired for being gay in many states. We can still be denied spousal health insurance - even if we are married Just because marriage is now recognized does not mean everyone believes being gay is acceptable - and calling our politial enemies gay relies on the beliefs of many that I am less than human in order to be an effective insult. We should not be hesitant to call out homophobia on a liberal Democratic site. But many of us (including me) are.

I really don't know why I bother anymore.