These sites are created to cultivate a feeling of guilt and regret in gay people. They want homosexuals to blame themselves for their feelings. These hate sites want to make gay people try to suppress their emotions. These sites are created to make people hate themselves. Many anti-gay people believe that homosexuality is not an innate characteristic, but rather a choice.
Many homosexuals attempt to change their sexuality through desperate measures like shock therapy.
They are led to this degree of self-loathing by pieces of literature like the ones readily available on the World Wide Web. All of this is not to say that the World Wide Web is not a saving grace for many members of the homosexual community, along with other minorities. Again imagine yourself the confused youth searching for answers on the Internet. You can read success stories of people who came out, or you can read stories of people who were not accepted and you can see how they were able to cope. Most of the stories on this website end positively, with the parents or family members fully accepting their gay family member.