taper Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > People get attacked and sometimes killed in the UK > because they are gay. Historically, people were > put into concentration camps because they were > gay. And even today 16 year old Iranian boys get > hung in public because they are gay. Trying to > equate this level of hate with schoolground fights > is, in a competitive field, quite the most asinine > comment i've seen on this forum. People also get attacked and killed because they are school kids. People were also put in concentration camps because of their race, people are also executed for any number of reasons o Iran. Again, whilst we shouldn't use ve word gay to mean rubbish, I totally agree, it is not a competition, and for every example of mistreatment to gay people, there is a comparable example of other groups being treated just as badly!