@sun I agree with you that hatred of gay men can be caused by finding them dirty (like I said, I find anal sex disgusting but I dont find gay men themselves disgusting) but "they spread diseases" is very often an excuse to hate when the real reason is not so justifiable, like with refugees and the poor and medieval antisemitism. hence for homophobes it usually goes like "they get diseases because theyre bad" and not "theyre bad because they get diseases".