Right. I’m one of those “deluded” queers for Palestine, but even in peacetime, I wouldn’t sashay into Gaza City in assless chaps and hope for the best. There’s plenty of homophobia in the world, especially wherever there is Islam, and the British obviously did not invent it.
I would still rather try to defeat homophobia with words than watch homophobes (and their innocent children) get murdered by an army which has its own homophobes, for reasons unrelated to homophobia.
If Santa wasn’t real, how you’d explain finland?