nobody calls it a hate crime.
it was all about narcissism and debauchery?
it's not like the two are mutually exclusive.
so there is a precedent of progress. It's not like they are fighting for an impossible cause.
0chaps who were, for all intents and purposes, homos: Holmes & Watson, Hacker & Appleby, Higgins & Pickering, people like that.
None of them would ever have been seen dead at a Gay Pride parade though.