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Being LGBT does not make you a representative of all LGBT people. But you miss the point - it doesn't have to be offensive, it just has to make the environment less welcoming and push the idea that LGBT are ""other"". 86.165.204.5  

Further response to Clpo13 on ANI

   The template in question is , which is about as civil a way to oppose gay marriage as possible. This is a silly an issue as, say, a Republican editor taking offense at someone using     . clpo13(talk) 

I agree it's one of the more ""civil"" ways you could express bigotted views but you are missing the point that there is no reason to be expressing the views unsolicited in the first place and all these little ""expressions"" add up and suddenly you wonder why LGBT are under-represented on wikipedia (or even more extremely, women, because there are even worse biases there). Contrast with another box on his user page saying he is a bash scripter. This kind of thing does not implcitily criticise a bunch of people for who they are and so while it could cause controversy in the sense that zsh or heck fish users like myself may think him to be wrong it does no damage, it just adds character and would be daft to complain about. You see the difference?"