Martin Luther King fought equally hard for civil rights and economic equality.

[Ken Burch]

97. It wasn't meant as a universal statement.

But you'd have to agree that it's a hell of a lot easier to be out of the closet, in general, if you're somebody like David Geffen than it is if you're, say, living in a mill town in the South or in a working-class neighborhood in Pittsburgh. Saying that issimply an acknowledgment that gays who are lower in the class system often(but not always) have it a lot tougher than gays who are upper-middle class or sitting on corporate boards.

Why is that observation offensive to you? I was simply pointing out the role class sometimes plays in this. I wasn't saying that gays, as a group, are economically privileged and would never say anything like that.

Kudos to working-class gays who have managed to come out, obviously.

And please stop acting like I haven't proved I'm not your mortal enemy. I've done nothing to deserve that from you.