straight ppl really think gays just hate other gays who aren’t open about their sexuality hence why so many coming out stories written by straight ppl have openly gay characters telling closeted characters they need to come or else they hate themselves like bitch that’s not self hatred that’s just protecting yourself and exercising ur right to privacy
I don’t think straight people really think we hate closeted people. I think THEY hate closeted people because it makes them uncomfortable that the gays could be among them without them instantly knowing. I think they hate closeted people because they feel entitled to know intimate details about our ~lurid~ lives. But they know they can’t just SAY that so they put it in the mouths of fictional gay people for plausible deniability.