I agree that it's an old joke, and not laugh out loud hilarious, but telling a joke like that does not make you a homophobe. I tell sexist (anti-female and anti-female, where does that leave me?), racist, anti-Irish jokes, anti-religion jokes, ageist jokes, all sorts of discriminatory jokes. But, that is not a relfection on what I think of each of those groups. And anyone who beleives that it is, is pretty narrow-minded. They just happen to be funny jokes. Get over it.
that and there is the age old argument of everything is open in comedy, otherwise when you ban one thing you have to ban everything.
that and there is the age old argument of everything is open in comedy, otherwise when you ban one thing you have to ban everything.
and everything is a lot