This entire exercise is an appeal for empathy.
What's wrong with empathy?
So you find life is unfair, hard, ridiculous, painful and all too often psychologically brutal and no one seems to be sensitive enough to your petty little problem. Deal with it. And take your self-pity somewhere else. My plate is already full.
This was not an exercise in self-pity. My state of mind does not hinge on whether or not someone is "sensitive" to me. I don't know where you gathered that from.
This was simply something I thought would give people a different perspective on the day to day lives of closeted gays and lesbians.
We are human. Sometimes we are not as empathetic towards others as those others think we should be. We all have issues of one sort or another.
This is, unfortunately, true. This, however, does not mean that any attempts to gain empathy with another group of people are meaningless and should not be attempted because "we all have problems."
Being gay, black, quadriplegic, blind, Arab, deaf, pregnant, republican, homeless, white, terminal, stupid, Jew, democrat, atheist, Nazi having dandruff or rickets or fibromyalgia or halitosis or cleft lip or buck teeth being stuck in prison or Wyoming or being green from eating too much broccoli is a nit compared to the vast majority of human sufferings.
Again, true, but just because there are starving children in this world does not mean that any attempt at understanding those who are different from yourself should be abandoned for more meaningful pursuits. In fact, it seems to me that those who learn to understand and emapthize with groups of humans different from themselves very quickly realize the humanity and inherent dignity of not just that one "other," but all humans. It is no mistake that there is alot of crossover (at least as far as I have observed) in membership in or support of varying social organizations (OxFam, Habitat for Humanity, Doctors Without Borders, PFLAG, Peace and Justice groups, etc).
Support for one group does not automatically exclude one from supporting any other groups. It is simply inane to suggest that anyone who spends any amount of time concentrating on gay and lesbian issues is ignoring all of the other suffering in this world.