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Tue Oct 29, 2002 11:18 am
To the topic of the post, here's my take (like it or leave it, I don't really care):
American culture is based on presumptive heterosexuality. If someone doesn't announce they're gay, and they're not dressed in women's clothes with a beard, you're assumed straight.
Whether that's right or wrong is another subject, and a complicated one.
Regardless, for those who are not straight, it is a matter of identifying others who share your orientation - which would you prefer, people with little rainbow stickers on their cars (which honestly, aren't any more or less tacky than any of the other thirty million tacky bumperstickers out there), or having to answer some asking you if you're straight or gay every fifteen minutes?
I admit, that's an exaggeration, but you get the point. The other idea behind the sticker is visibility - the more an average person sees that gay people are everywhere, from every walk of life, the more likely that person is to display tolerance. Make sense?