Gay and bi people can be just as bigoted as anyone else, and I've noticed that seemingly quite a lot of people aren't as quick to criticize bigoted gay people as they are religious zealots. Like anything that becomes a hot topic, there's a band wagon effect where it becomes "in" to white knight for the latest biggest causes and victims while simultaneously still being guilty of other bigotries, and it's as though they feel the need to walk on egg shells around gay people. But I'd like to point out, speaking as a trans person, that this applies to the trans community as well. I've dealt with quite a few nasty and bigoted trans people, recently one who said a lot of cruel and ignorant stuff about disabled people, and it always surprises me why people who know what it's like to be part of a persecuted minority would ever inflict that on anyone else, knowing what it's like. That's why I don't see people as "communities" anymore, gay people typically get lumped together due to the fact they face the same discrimination and mistreatment from others, so they get thought of as a "group" but sexuality is just one part of a person's being, outside of that many of them have nothing in common. Same for trans people. When I first started meeting other trans people, I very naively figured they'd mostly be very compassionate and understanding due to how troubling it can be to grow up with these feelings, but it's not like that at all.
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