Obviously. The rights of a minority depend on the consent of the majority. It's deluded to believe otherwise.

Yes

No. I don't give a **** about what anyone thinks about me

No.

You can be defined by a lot of things - your career, your sexuality, your religion, your politics. It's up to you how you prioritize your identity in life. Some people have life-long gay relationships without their work colleagues and peers so much as batting an eyelid. And I'm not talking about 'in the closet' either. The first step is choosing to avoid the victim mentality.

You're answering a different question. He didn't ask about 'rights'. Your life does not 100% depend on your rights. Unless you believe your sexuality alone defines you and your life 100%.

He asked about gay life. Gay life does depend on sexuality. This, I assume, refers to the lifestyle of a gay person and the freedom they have to express their sexuality. And I believe the quality of gay life is dependent on gay rights.

There are countless countries where homosexuality isn't accepted and the LGBT community suffers because of this. India, for example, where gay sex is illegal. Here, gay men get duped into supposed sexual encounters. They are then robbed and are unable to go to the police because sex is illegal. This also limits availability of treatment of diseases like AIDS as the method of contraction is illegal.

You can easily contrast the life of a gay man in Sweden (where straight people accept being gay) to Uganda (where being gay almost resulted in a death sentence). How is quality of life not dependent on rights?

I find it ignorant and sad to see people saying "I don't care what people say I let them seethe", "don't be a victim" or "im just fabulous".. I feel like thats missing the whole point

You should expect and fight for the equality entitled to us just by the fact we're human

All lives depend on the rights given to us, its not that we define ourselves 100% by our sexuality, its how society defines us

Of course it does. Without straight acceptance there would be no gay marriage, no gay adoption, no protection from hate crimes. If all straights didn't accept gays then nobody could be openly gay without serious risk of injury or death. A world without straight acceptance of gays would be one with no openly gay people and no gay rights whatsoever. How could a gay person even go about living their life in a world like that? The gay rights movement would have gotten nowhere without it's straight allies. It's not about trying to impress straights or any **** like that. It's being aware that straights are the majority and have the most power in the world and thus can influence change.

Not at all.