And here's the double edge sword in Squirt's statement. They may show any number of gay stereotypes in order to show homosexuality as being shameful, but what does it say about us that we see ourselves as being shameful. How many times have you seen "no fems" in an online profile? How many times has a gay man made a derogatory comment about a "nelly queen"? I mean, all those people you mentioned, the effeminate Gay man, the emo Gay, the muscle mary gay, I mean these are all parts of our society and people we should embrace.

I hate when an effeminate guy is being shown on TV and some butch gay guy says, "well, we're not all like that". Well you know, yes we are. There is nothing wrong with embracing your feminine side and I think this is an important message we need to sent to the media and the het community. We're gay and no we're NOT just like you. We have a rich culture made up of all sorts of different people and you should accept us the way you accept anyone who's different from you. We have gay people who act just like straight people but we also have drag queens and leathermen and jocks and show tune queens and punks and emos and lipstick lesbians and bull dykes and tomboys and girly boys. We use the rainbow flag as our symbol because we are as diverse as the rainbow.