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I'm with nota on this. I want to know where these places are. Now, there is a difference between straight people talking amongst themselves how much it pisses them off and someone actually doing anything about it. I have a gay brother, a gay neighbor, my wifes uncle is gay, I've had about 5 gay friends in my life and while some of them can talk about being made fun of at some point, none of them can say they have ever been kept from doing certain things or held back due to being gay. You would be surprised most gay people, like straight people don't go around making a deal about it and that isn't what defines them. Like most normal people what defines them is their actions as a human being, and what they accomplish in life.
Being in the Navy, I have seen some people held back for being gay. That whole DADT thing that only just got repealed (officially) less than a year ago.
This is the issue. Some of you are acting like it is a horrible thing to point out that there is some oppression in the US against gays. It's not. The laws that make the oppression due to the government (adoption laws, marriage laws, etc.) need to be changed. But every group faces some oppression by someone, everywhere. Very few groups in the US have to fight so hard nowdays to end legal oppression that can seriously and demonstrably affect their lives. LGBT people are one of those groups.