Is being Gay and open more dangerous now?

[Charon]

What we're at now is how homosexuals are viewed according to a caste and class system. If you are a "Screming Queen" wanderng around the streets of Detroit or similar, you're asking for it. If you are as most of us are, leading our lives just as people then it becomes a matter of how people who know or you have told react. Then there's the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. The Phelps family who comprise it's membership. You will remember this group shows up at funerals of fallen soldiers proclaiming vocally and with signs that the existence of "fags" is why the man being buried died. This is God's way of punishing people for being even a little bit tolerant. Want to be more frightened? They go taken to the Supreme Court and WON on freedom of speech issues. I've never been sure why they're so wild eyed about this singular topic but that's there cause celebre and its been ongoing for years. As a friend of mine said, they shouldn't have a cross burning in front of their church, they should have a church burning in front of their parishoners. Preferably one started by lightning, sometimes known as the finger of God.
We're all subject to some minor harassment and the best we can do is overlook it. The great mass of society is,however lightly, on our side and see that sort of thing as wrong.