Stop 'joking' or otherwise implying/claiming that every politician/religious leader/person with social and/or financial power doing anything queerphobic "must be closeted".
It minimizes the fact that systematic harms exist because the people participating in disenfranchisement and societal abuse gain from them.
It perpetuates the idea that being queer is a bad thing (saying ‘well I’m just saying it because they think it is a bad thing does not undo the fact that you just made a bigoted joke/comment! you don't just get a free pass to be a bigot because the person you are talking about is one!)
A lot of people legitimately take it as a reason to have sympathy for the people you are talking about. I can't start to count how many times I've seen people respond to jokes about bigots being queer with "it's funny- but why else would they do this?! They are awful, but imagine hating yourself that much, really it's just sad!" Do not risk giving these assholes sympathy!
Even if the person IS closeted, that doesn't matter! It doesn’t nullify the harm they are doing or absolve them of horrible abuses of power!
These comments derail important social conversations with bullshit assumptions.
We don’t need to try to hypothesize why people hoarding power do things to take freedom (and with it power) away from whoever they can- the answer is right there in the question.

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