Can you be more specific? Exactly what "rights" are being denied gays that are currently granted to heterosexuals? How exactly are the people you mention actively denying those "rights?"
I ask this because as Americans we all have the same rights, whether gay or hetero. The Bill of Rights doesn't specify gender preference. So I honestly have no idea of what you're talking about.
Outside of America in the rest of the big wide world, different cultures exist with different attitudes towards gays. In many countries the right to simply live freely and openly as a homosexual is being denied - in these countries gay relationships and marriages are not legal, and being gay is taboo, illegal, and/or punishable by death.
You can also google 'heterosexual privilege' to read examples of how gay people are systematically oppressed in America simply for their orientation.
The term phobia was first used in 1786.
The term homophobia wasn't coined until 1969.
You can't just take a word that's over 200 years old and say, we're going to add this meaning and that meaning, in order to suit our political agenda.
"Society's rethinking of sexual orientation was crystallized in the term homophobia, which heterosexual psychologist George Weinberg coined in the late 1960s. Weinberg used homophobia to label heterosexuals' dread of being in close quarters with homosexuals"
Again there is no mention of strictly fear, and all language evolves with society so arguments of etymology are moot. In this current context, the only one obsessing over the definition to suit a political agenda is you.
Your problem with 'homophobia' is its usage beyond your clinical definition. A gay person's problem with homophobia is living in potential fear of being abused, ostracised or killed due to their sexual orientation.
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Tickling is a big part of the sex life of many TMF members. I think it's unfair to label any of them homophobic simply because you take offense at the level of revulsion some might feel.
So according to you, someone labeling someone a homophobe IN RESPONSE to their potentially homophobic behaviour, is a bigger crime than the UNPROVOKED abuse, assault and murder of gay people for simply being gay...which gay people should apparently 'suck up' and 'move on from'.
I don't know why I'm bothering, but...
...Imagine a world where people with a tickling fetish like YOU are heavily stigmatized, bashed or killed for liking tickling. Many vanilla people condemn your sexuality as abnormal, wrong or a sin - yet to you, it's perfectly natural and you're not harming anyone. You only feel comfortable discussing tickling with other ticklers, because society makes you feel unsafe expressing your genuine interests...no matter how kind, moral or decent you are. Someone crudely insults tickling as 'not right' and you are offended - after all you accept others might NOT be into tickling, but believe ticklers should be treated with respect for being human. Ticklers don't have the same rights as the vanilla people, so you stand up for yourself - but in response the vanilla people arrogantly tell you to get over it, think you're being PC with a 'tickling agenda', and ultimately dismiss your problems as insignificant - even though they've never experienced a day in your shoes, because being vanilla is considered normal and right in society.
As repeatedly stated and overlooked, I took offence to a specific blanket statement dismissing M/M as 'not right', not to anyone's personal preference against M/M. On a forum that celebrates tickling I'm grateful most users are accepting and kind, while the crudely prejudiced are a select minority.
