There's a need for new scholarship into the diversity of gay experience in America. Most people are aware of people who share their values but don't know much about people who don't. I don't know any gays who are looking to joing the local Chamber of Commerce, and I assumed (incorrectly?) that there weren't many.

Similarly, I do not recognize myself in some of the accusations guys have made against me on this forum. I am not a social victim myself -- do I have to be? I believe this society has arbitrary victims, and that we don't do enough to correct things that ought to be corrected. Maybe my accusers, in stereotyping my beliefs, don't know any better.