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The first part sounds like you learned from straight people's reactions. What do you feel you learned from LGBT folk that you wouldn't have if you hadn't identified yourself to them as gay?

I don't agree with their "insults". I think they don't understand that you really can learn more the way you did it ("immersion") than just by being an "armchair empathizer". So I wanted to get your first hand insight into how and what more you felt you learned from the immersion.

Tim, you're catching some flak in the other thread for not being (paraphrasing) "intelligent enough to get the perspective by just talking to and listening to LGBT folks". What do you think you learned from your experience that you wouldn't have by just talking and listening to LGBT folk as a straight man, and what specifically about your experience allowed you to gain that greater learning?