On the other hand, “welp, looks like another case of projection from the anti-gay crowd” often veers into “haha that dude’s totally gay but it’s woke to weaponize sexual orientation as an accusation when I’m accusing some chud of projection” territory. And certainly there are plenty of straight folks who are bigoted as well, and turning an environment with rampant homophobia into “probably just another closeted, projecting gay guy” isn’t good.

I've always wondered like... what goes through people's minds with this. Is it just that typical libshit thing of pointing out hypocrisy?

Because I've never seen anyone expand on that. It's just "haha I bet that anti-gay guy is gay" as if... the fact that he's gay is a joke. It's kinda disgusting.