> Anyway, you are straight, so if you don't care about equality between
> gays and queers, your status explains it and protects you from any
> consequences of indifference.
"Not caring" has nothing to do with it. I would guess that most, if not all of us --- meaning "leftists" --- have friends and/or relatives who are gay/lesbian/bisexual/transexual. We also know that capitalist society is a condition of artificial scarcity --- relative to the higher phase of communist society --- and this includes a scarcity of (economic) class consciousness, not to mention the time and resources with which class consciousness is built. Wage earners --- GLBT and straight --- remain, as Marx pointed out all those years ago, the only revolutionary class in a fully-developed capitalist society. There may be some GLBT _individuals_ for whom GLBT issues _are_ a critical material concern. As a historical materialist, however, my belief is that issues regarding wage labour itself remain the key issues in regard to the class consciousness of wages earners _as_a_whole_, GLBT or straight. Therefore, the political left will be non-revolutionary in direct proportion to the time it spends on issues which are a material concern for only a small section of that class, such as GLBT workers, rather than the class as a whole.
regards,
Grant.