WELL, GOOD: I’m a gay conservative and I refuse to ‘shut the f–k up,’ Deadspin.

Many progressives are truly beginning to believe that gay men who hold conservative or libertarian views are not just wrong, but traitorous. Living on a liberal college campus in Massachusetts, I’ve personally encountered this attitude many times. It is sick, sad, and fundamentally regressive.

This particular Deadspin article serves as a case study of how identity politics is an assault on individualism. Thiesen dismisses a gay Barstool writer as a “traitorous queer,” and laughs off the Trump-supporting Silicon Valley tycoon Peter Thiel as just some rich gay cashing in on the Republican Party’s supposed bigotry.

Basically, Thiesen is saying that gay men have to think with their genitalia, and that their sexual preferences strip them of the same right to reason we afford everyone else. This is ignorant, and frankly, blatantly homophobic.

It isn’t homophobia/sexism/racism/assault/rape/lawbreaking when lefties do it.