A thread& #39;s going around suggesting only violent acts can be homophobic/transphobic. I& #39;m not surprised this is from an older man who just wants everyone younger than him to shut up.
Violence might be the peak to incidents, but that isn& #39;t the beginning.
They start with words.

"Jokes" become rumor, belief, legislation when state-sanctioned. The people in his examples didn& #39;t spontaneously act out against us. The ground for each individual was laid long before they attacked anyone.

There& #39;s a resurgence of this opinion each year just before or in June. Older gays who are sick of Pride, who think we& #39;re too loud, entitled, etc, same old, same old.
We have Pride because when we stay invisible, we go back to being painted as the monster under the bed.

There won& #39;t be Pride parades this year because there& #39;s a pandemic and we& #39;re a community that knows better.
Still, we& #39;re going to keep talking, and taking issue with anti-queer language and legislation. The disgruntled can always block or log off.
We& #39;re not shutting up.