It's one thing to be "different" and know it's "different". It's another to be "different" and want to scream it at everyone until they come around to thinking your "difference" isn't al that "different".

For example, I'm a bit of a looner. I like to watch women sit on and blow up ballons til they pop. That's wierd. I know it's wierd. And I have no problem admitting as such. I also know that there is an entire community of us admitted wierdos that have no problem with our wierdness. Do a youtube search under "balloon sit" or "balloon burst" and you'll see a lotta loonin'. But you don't catch us out running down the middle of the street having a "Looner Pride Parade". (Although there have been some huge parties in rented hotel ballrooms) Some "different" is just that, "different'. But that doesn't mean that even innocuous differences need to be embraced by the general public.

A gay person under the impression that being gay is just some other "difference" is fooling himself.