It's because they value personal comfort and the accumulation of clout and wealth over the lives of, well, anyone. It's one of the reasons that corporate pride is so insidious- it defangs and co-opts a truly liberatory movement into just another flavor of exploitative capitalism. The queer folks (even the cis gay men who are attempting to distance themselves from the queer community) who attach themselves to systems of power believe that they can take advantage of those systems to their own benefit without realizing or believing that they'll never really be part of that club and that they're next on the chopping block. The especially frustrating thing is that this is a pattern that has repeated itself throughout history... sigh.

Had a gay acquaintance who was staunchly Republican. This guy was wealthy ($100,000,000+) and only cared about taxes. He was unbelievably miserly and his friends refused to go out to eat with him because he would not leave a tip. Deeply closeted too or so he thought. Everyone in his little town knew.

It’s as simple as this: just because you’re gay (or a member of any other minority group for that matter) doesn’t mean that you’re not a shitty person. Just look at Peter Thiel for ffs…

Sure, we should all aspire to be good people and do good by our respective communities and to help others who are “others“, but that doesn’t mean we do.

Peter Theil is a Republican. And when Gawker forced him out of the closet, he turned around and set Hulk Hogan against them to sue them into oblivion.

Of course, it's probably different when you're putting on a marionette show.