No one is suggesting you are anything other than a perfectly open-minded individual, Quint, but the point is that many people out there don't share your live and let live philosophy, which is precisely why gay people feel the need to go on marches.
As for the camping it to the max on a night out thing, just go to any provincial town centre on a Saturday evening for brazen displays of rampant heterosexuality...
Anyway, back on topic...
After listening to Brett Easton Ellis give an entertaining interview on the Grauniad books podcast the other day, I've just picked up American Psycho - yet another one of those books I really should have read by now. I only hope the satire hasn't dated too badly.
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