Why is being gay a prob?

[DebsUK]

It's not that I think others want to know my sexual orientation, but that I want others to know it. If it's important to me to say "I'm not gay", I'll say it. And if I said instead "I'm straight", it would be taken the same way.

If we are engaging in a discussion about football and I say "I like baseball", my off-subject comment would at most get a "huh?" but most likely it would be ignored. If someone says "I'm not gay" but is not relevant to the conversation, why can't it be ignored?

Declaring oneself as straight or not gay is not homophobia.

But if the discussion is about football and someone chips in with "I like baseball" you aren't making a statement loaded with the inference that you're not "one of them"

Speaking as a crossdreser that doesn't like Piers Morgan or is Mongolian, and taking responses in this thread, the subject isn't "Who's gay here?", but "Why is being gay a problem?", yet how many have started off by saying "I'm not gay, but....." or words to that effect? Doesn't the fact that contributors making that assertion are implying that there is in fact something wrong with being gay?