Some people pride themselves on “tolerating” what they perceive as cultural gays, but then recoil from evidence of their sexuality. To a certain hetero mindset, it seems there are two distinct groups – cultural gays (acceptable), and sexual gays (unacceptable!). This often seemed to be the “problem” with the late George Michael – that he was an actively sexual gay man, and didn’t care who knew it. Part of the problem seems to lie with gay sex in particular, rather than gay people generally, the bizarre phenomenon of almost “enforced asexuality”, where gay people (or anyone non-straight) can be accepted, even celebrated, but only so long as the “sex stuff” is played down to the point of being undetectable. To a certain hetero mindset, there are two distinct groups – cultural gays (acceptable), and sexual gays (unacceptable!)
