We need to completely de-sexualise same-sex hand-holding in the first place. It's ridiculous that I can't walk arm-in-arm with a female friend without fearing that everyone will think that we are gay. Also, unhand the rainbow - it is a natural phenomenon, not a "symbol of homosexuality". There is nothing sacred in hedonism and selfishness, either. There is nothing beautiful in public displays of same-sex affection, and the aversion to it stems from a natural aversion to all that goes against the natural order and plunges into the depths of over-indulgence and materialism. Have you ever met a gay person who isn't consumed by materialism and obsessed with physical pleasure? If so, were they an emotionally healthy and stable person? Keep it to yourselves, in privacy. It's really not about the right to expression, but about the right of everyone else not to have to see you put yourselves on display, in our faces. That does not mean that homophobia is appropriate, or that people attacking another should not be punished to the full extent of the law. That is where civil rights end, however. Assault is assault ... but same-sex PDA's are assault, like spitting in nature's face. Besides, I have as much right to not like it or agree with it as you have a right to want it to be part of the norm.