The existence and prominence of gays should have NO EFFECT on your life.
It shouldn't, but when they become a "movement," then it often does. I was in a religious club in law school. We were small, and quiet, and never refused or harassed anyone in any way. But the lesbian club complained to our very gay-friendly school that our mere existence harassed them, and the school agreed. They said that the religious club had to say "gay is ok" or else they could not be a school club any more.
So we flew in a team of lawyers from Washington DC and sued. The school is a state university, and spent a lot of taxpayer dollars to defend themselves. They racked up a big legal bill for themselves...and lost. They also had to pay our legal fees. The final court opinion was written by a very famous judge and is now used as precedent to keep gay rights activists from kicking religious clubs out of public schools and universities.
I was fine with gay people when they just wanted to be left alone. But now they want to force everyone to agree with them, and it's ridiculous. I don't think there's hardly any oppression of gays left in this country. If so, they just move to the city. If gay people want to be activists so badly, let them go fight the Taliban, the Iranians, and all of the other powers that be who are still executing people for simply being gay. That is oppression.