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No one is afraid of the gays. (Well, no one who isn't mentally ill.) They are afraid of some locus of power, which, despite what some pundits claim about the force of the 'woke mob,' gay people do not have significant power. Some person or group of people have power in their life, and those boys are willing to sacrifice other peoples' happiness, safety, and sometimes even lives, so they can virtue signal to the powers that be. "See? I'm attacking the scapegoat too, so I must be a good guy. I'm certainly not hiding a thousand secret sins that might make me an outcast. How could I be? That'd be hypocritical because then I'd be evil like him. So I'm attacking him. See? This proves I'm good.'