It sickens me when I hear jokes about gays in the Orthodox community. (On Shabbos, it was jokes about same sex marriages). It also sickens me when I hear stereotypes being trumpeted like facts. (On Purim, it was a joke about how gays men are all about being part-Martha Stewart, part-man. I’ve also had someone tell me they were glad their friend went through “brainwashing” workshops to make him straight. (Right, so he could then marry some poor woman and make her life miserable like my ex-boyfriend had made mine?)
No one ever thinks there might be someone gay in the room, just like they don’t worry someone might be offended by their racist joke. To me, they all fall under the same disgusting hate crime category. Perhaps this is why Heshy Fried is worried about his gay friend coming out in the Orthodox community.
Memoirs of a Jewminicana 
Rabanit Hausman-I think in general there’s a problem in our Orthodox community in that some individuals feel that bashing folks whether they are gay, visible minorities, in some cases Religious Zionists, liberals, Reform and Conservative Jews, or non-Jews altogether, is all fair game. My younger brother is gay and I will take him and his partner any day over these sorts of “frum crackers” that mushroom in our communities!
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There’s a film called < HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trembling_Before_G-d" REL="nofollow">Trembling Before G-d<> worth seeing.
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I’m an emerging frum woman who has no problem whatsoever with gays or lesbians. I suppose having gay grandparents helped. Lol. The frum community needs to face its own bigotry.
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