Police: Man going to gay pride event had rigged magazines

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33. Perhaps you are missing how toxic and hostile our society is to gay people STILL in many places.

This allows for pathological levels of self-hatred and self-loathing to occur in some individuals who have been fighting what should be seen as a very natural part of themselves.

There are spiritual attacks, emotional attacks, and mental attacks against gay people in many parts of our country still. This inevitably leads to physical attacks against gay people (sometimes the perpetrator is lashing out at their own same sex attractions) or physical attacks against oneself (suicides) due to the psychological damage that our society still inflicts on people that experience same sex attractions. Especially when they are surrounded by social conservatives within a religious framework.

We have a lot of work to do. Still.

This does not surprise me even a little that people that struggle with same sex attractions are OCCASIONALLY the perpetrators of violence against gay people. Not even a little. It makes perfect sense to me, and it would seem inevitable to occur due to the hostile environment that many gay people still face.