text: > I think you're a bit confused. If you're "an LGBT ally" that would make you their "friend".  ...Okay, if that's true, then it'd be on your wording, which comes off like you're saying "only gay people and their buddies will show up", where I'm neither gay, nor have first-hand gay friends (just haven't had the chance to make them, or their sexuality has never come up). And even without a first-hand connection (like being a friend), I'd show up.