Considering, what, only 60% of all Americans support LGBT rights, 40% isn't too bad for a community that is, yes, a little socially conservative. The 'picture' I was trying to paint was that the community isn't very homogenous in the way many people think, not that some Muslims are not homophobic - they clearly do have those tendencies but not in as huge a way as people think.

My point is that the rightist activists wouldn't stage this in a community that is Swedish and homophobic. There is very clearly a racist and xenophobic component to this march - yes, I would say that it would reflect very poorly on the neighborhood if it reacts in a homophobic manner, but, to be blunt, you can't magically transform what might be a culturally conservative society into a progressive one by 'calling them out'. A lot of these immigrants come from cultures that haven't very often even recognized that the LGBT community exists - and let's not forget that Western culture wasn't very different fifty or so years ago. Hell, Western culture wasn't very different twenty years ago in some places. I'm not saying give them amnesty, but I'm saying they need to be educated and integrated into Western values, if that makes sense.

And xenophobes are definitely -not- people who have the right to do that, as far as I see it. Engage with the community and do not allow them to discriminate, definitely, but I don't think an aggressive approach is a good idea at all.

(As a bit of a disclaimer, I obviously hugely support the LGBT movement and I really do wish more people in my community felt the same way - but I do think the tides are shifting and eventually the sizable minority of people that do think like me on this matter will become a majority - just as was the case with various other communities in the world)