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There should be no gay bars because they are a "special right", and straight people don't "need everyone in the room to have the same sexuality as themselves".
The thing that made this take even more ridiculous is that I heard it from a westerner living in Japan. She talked about how she didn't feel the need to take her Japanese boyfriend to "exclusively heterosexual spaces". The fact that non-heterosexuals are under pressure to keep their sexuality private and thus find it much harder to find partners at work or outside queer spaces had never crossed her mind.
I have my own criticisms about gay bars (especially in Japan) and how they can be incredibly insular and often have very toxic gender norms, but her take was so dumb.