My partner and I have been in a loving and committed relationship now for 31 years. We’re here to stay, and so are gays and lesbians everywhere. Deal with it.

So you have absolutely nothing against people who are gay, but you think the diversity on HGTV is nice as long as the shows aren’t about gay folks. That doesn’t sound quite right to me.

Funny, but when I watch HGTV, I see far more straight, single, younger, working, struggling, and families with children who are hunting for houses than I see “white affluent older retired together male gay couples” who are looking for houses. I think diversity of alls kinds is nice, including but not limited to lesbians (who are in fact gay btw), African Americans, Hispanics, gay men, and Asian Americans, and I don’t see why it should bother anyone to watch a gay male couple searching for a home.

Why is it so hard to identify with a gay male demographic? Gay men are expected to accept, fit in with and identify with the rest of society at large. You see, we are all people, human beings with the exact same desires as everyone else around us, desires for happiness, security, family, friends, peace, health, prosperity etcera. Being gay doesn’t change those values or desires within a person Being gay doesn’t make a person any less human. Being gay doesn’t mean a person should be a social outcast. Being gay doesn’t mean a person is a terrorist. Being gay is simply a sexual preference, and just like heterosexuality, it is something with which a person is born.

Someone very close to you could be gay, but if so, it’s likely they’re afraid to tell you about it because they can sense in you this hesitancy to accept them for being gay. Maybe they’re afraid they will be that “one too many” gay person in your life. Hey, you said it yourself: Being inclusive is great, as long as the proportion of gay folk to straight folk doesn’t become too great for your personal level of comfort.

Your words clearly imply that you think ethnic diversity is nice, whereas too many gays, especially older, white, retired, affluent gays make HGTV not so nice. I guess you think that particular demographic should just go jump off the planet or start wearing dark shoe polish on their skin. Maybe you think they should pretend to be straight and go marry some unsuspecting woman.

It’s time to think about what you are saying and to reevaluate your thought processes. Adjust your attitude. USA is filled with enough small-minded bigots already.