If you maybe wanted to be seen as so straight, so manly, so masculine that you gave no shits about gay men, you’d perform tolerance and enlightenment with ironic homophobia. If you maybe wanted to be seen as so straight, so manly, and so masculine that your heterosexuality was too pure to risk a homosexual contagion, you performed hatred, adopting a rigid and unceasing animus toward gay men that you didn’t quite understand or maybe didn’t even really believe.
