Thank you for this thorough, informative, and enlightening piece. Sorry I commented so much! I just found everything you said to be revelatory on some level and pretty obviously true. Remember the movie American Beauty? A repressed gay man shoots another man because he was embarassed he'd revealed his homosexual desire. In my own life, something similar happened: a lovely gay couple were killed in their bed by a man who claimed he hated gays but turned out to show homosexual interest in prison. Repressing and dehumanizing same sex attraction is harmful to society and everyone in it. Thanks for shining a bit of light on what really fuels homophobia.