AfterElton Briefs: Todd Holland clarifies, Matthew Mitcham misses and more!

That's how I took his comments.

However, I don't think Hollywood is helping to show that one's friend or neighbor or doctor, etc., could be glbt by having a character who happens to be glbt on tv or in the movies.

I do have to remind myself from time to time that in the entertainment business discrimination is deemed acceptable. I think there is a laundry list of things people can be discriminated against before sexuality such as color of their skin, height, or weight, etc.

As a gay biochemist (Ph.D.) I have always felt there was a lack of gay role models. 

And quite frankly I find the need for queer actors to be out to really offensive. Point one it plays to stereotyping. Oh yes, most gays are all would-be-actors or in the entertainment industry and, of course, no one who is gay would possibly be a physicist or anyone else that could be intelligent cause we all know we are so Project Runway.

Plus I am really getting tired of the "homophobia" fall-back. Yes! Alienate all marginally for gay straight people by rubbing their faces into it.

We are, after all, our own best role-models.

Virgo108, you are totally right! Its nice to have media figures and athletes come out but when it comes down to it all politics is local. That is why we must come out and we must live our lives as the neighbor who just happens to be. People can easily put us in the category "those people" because they don't know who is a member of our community near them. It is our job, like it or not, to represent and make ourselves known as normal citizens who have a characteristic unfamiliar to them. I do this every day in my office and have for almost 12 years in the business world. I am proud of who I am and unafraid to share it when others talk about their wife or husband or children. Because in the end, not only do I have to get along and accept them, they have to get along and accept me. Its a two way street.

How singularly innocent I look this morning.