[quote=@Buddha]You don't do that with gay prides, you don't do that by screaming in their face and protesting.[/quote]

At least in the UK, modern gay prides aren't screamy protests. They're big ol' carnivals which explicitly go out of their way to ensure that LGBT+ people are welcome. Lots of people go to the biggest ones who aren't even LGBT+, because it's basically a big gay pissup - which, incidentally, is a nice change for LGBT+ from the usual mindset of 'must be vigilant when around my partner in public in case somebody literally beats us up'. Or it's an understanding space where people are uncertain about their gender or sexuality to go experiment with a new version of themselves.

You're right in that most people (at least in the UK) don't care one way or the other - and that's great. However, when people [i]do[/i] care, it sucks for LGBT+ people. It results in anything from low-level being made to feel shitty (whether intentional or not) to literally being killed, even in societies where people are broadly understanding.

Still, I can't help but read a chip on your shoulder when you pull up gay prides three times. Unless they're vastly different in the US, it does sound like you're in some way offended by LGBT+ people when they're doused in sparkles and boas and ... you know, gay stuff. It's just gays having a gay party. LGBT+ have historically had a pretty shitty time of it - let 'em party one day a year. If you don't like that stuff, do what I do and just stay at home that day. God knows LGBT+ people spend enough time feeling like the world's ramming one particular version of existence down their throats: I think it's pretty polite of the majority of LGBT+ people who go to prides to condense all their public gay into [i]one[/i] day a year in [i]some[/i] cities.

[quote]Fact of the matter is, you can advocate pro-LGBT+ but at the same time they have a right to advocate anti-LGBT+ and they don't even need a good reason for it. All they need is a gut feeling. 

This doesn't make them a bigot[/quote]

I'm pretty sure you've actually just defined a bigot. At least in my book, somebody who is intolerant and can't live by a 'live and let live' mentality is [i]precisely[/i] a bigot. The law in the UK does not forbid the opinion that homosexuality is wrong, or even the dissemination of that opinion, but nor does it protect the people with that opinion from [url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/08/18/man-who-claims-god-punishes-gays-with-floods-has-his-home-destroyed-in-flood-of-biblical-proportions/]being ridiculed[/url] or told, more roundly, to fuck right off. It does, however, explicitly forbid the dissemination of the opinion that LGBT+ people should be [i]harmed[/i]. Talking free speech is all well and good, but in the UK at least, it's freedom [i]within the law[/i]. That is to say, one cannot advocate committing a crime. Discussing whether or not something (killing gays, for example) should or should not be legal is fine, but until you've won that argument one way or the other, the law's position is absolute.

Most LGBT+ people would be delighted with a world where people can pursue life in their own way (including being homophobic), but it's not unreasonable for them to want and expect the same legal rights and social acceptance as cishet people - the same privileges that the people that advocate against them have historically enjoyed. People who advocate against the rights or the lifestyle of a group that [i]does no harm to anybody whatsoever[/i] fall into one of two camps; the religiously insane; or the interminably selfish. The 'god will smite us all' group, I think most people would agree, basically comprises dumbasses. The '[i]I[/i] don't like it so [i]nobody[/i] can have it' group, meanwhile, is suffering a serious lack of the ability to [i]share[/i]. They have the [i]right[/i] to be nuts/selfish, but, you know, it doesn't stop them being nuts/selfish, or being judged for being nuts/selfish in a way that is directly opposed to a group that doesn't want anything more than the equality it typically hasn't experienced.

All of this cuts both ways, of course. I'm sure there are plenty of LGBT+ people (or supporters) who are militant and intolerant of people peacefully disagreeing, and they're bigots too. The only thing is, it's almost never the anti-gay bigots that get the shitty end of the stick. Ain't no anti-gay bigot who's afraid to be with their partner in public. Ain't no anti-gay bigot whose right to marry/have consensual sex with the person they choose is something that has to be fought for. Ain't no anti-gay bigot whose sexuality and how it relates to free speech and the law is called frequently into question.