Hey Cobber...

Everybody has their own views on this issue....
I came up in the music business around a bunch of gay people..

My mother had crossed over late in life and that was my entre into the scene.

While I'd agree that there is no "necessary" division, the fact is that the gay scene is seen as "different"..

The positive side in setting a seperate side for the material is that ultimately people would see it's really all just art.

Before there was a Black Miss America there were no Black contestants in the Miss America pageant.
After Miss Black America became a factor, black women began to show up in and indeed win Miss America.
N ow, that's a shabby example of what I'm talking about..but it is the process I'm referring to.

Rememberr...I'm an old time hippie..

Bob