Oh, in all actuality I have plenty of male friends with different personal sexual preferences than I do, but when ever I make the assumption that it's "okay" for me to make quasi-derogitory-yet-good-natured, I get slammed too.
So... All I'm doing is ensuring that we don't have any duality issues, or, hypocrites.
Also there seems to be people here who are extremely easily offended, so we want to protect them too.
And then lastly, I also want to change their opinion of me as apparently being a "homophobe" by basically doing the same thing that you did.
At that, it's very clear to see that we in-fact do not have a casual forum to post in, but we ultimately have a place where politically correctness rules and every form of casualness has been thrown out the window for scrutiny and flaming.
It truly sucks.