Do you know what my problem is with all of this? It's not that I think the emeritus professor was right to speak the way he did - he wasn't and he's obviously quite a bit out of touch for speaking that way. My problem with this, as a gay person, is that I've had to put up with so many comments like this in my life, but I just took them and tried to gently educate folks who said things like this to me. I never ran to my bosses or to the media. I took it and became an ambassador. And many of the folks who spoke to me that way in the past would give me the best reference you could imagine today. I feel like I've climbed really high in the world because I was willing to forgive and educate rather than lash out at these people. Maybe I'm doing it wrong...