How do homophobic Democrats fit into a 2016 campaign?

[Behind the Aegis]

21. Depends.

There a variety of homophobes and levels of homophobia in the democratic party and its constituents. Most people only consider explicit homophobia (name-calling, physical abuse, and blatant civil rights violations) to be "real" homophobia. Of course, you and I, and other GLBT people and our true allies, know homophobia comes in degrees. There are those who think are struggle is a "struggle", with the quotes, indicating it isn't a real movement, nor is it really important in the scheme of social justice. There are those who think our struggle is a joke and gloms onto the movements of "real" minorities. There are those who think "we already have rights" it is just how we "choose to be so open" which is our "real" problem. There are those who think GLBT people are of a singular mind and therefore, anyone one who is gay and doesn't follow the preset, almost always a heterosexist, viewpoint, then we aren't "real GLBT" or we are "traitors" to be mocked with homophobic slurs, which magically become "un"-homophobic when said about an "enemy".

So where do they fit in? It depends on which ones you are asking about in regards to their fit. The blatant ones are usually ferreted out. The ones who appear to be "allies", but really aren't, they are the ones we have to tolerate, as we have always done, and continue to expose them, their bigotries and biases, and continue to stand up for what is right and demand our equality.