I had to Google "TMI." Our personal experiences influence our stereotypes, but that doesn't make them universally true or false. It can be informative pertaining to where our views come from.

In the spirit of that, when I was 15 (too young to drive) I liked to shoot pool. My neighborhood pool room had no snooker tables and I liked to play on them to stay sharp. There was a big pool room where a world championship had once taken place at Grand & Olive that had them. That was also a red-light district and there was a gay bar there.

I hitch-hiked and quickly got picked up leaving. Often by gay men who would offer me money for sex at some point before we got where I said I was going (never before I got into the car). Which take-away would be appropriate? They were pedos trying to turn an adolescent boy into a homosexual prostitute or did they think that I was a prostitute looking to get picked up? Is there any sweeping generalized stereotype justified by that? I don't write that to counter anything that you wrote. In a gay bar you will find gay men. Do they represent a larger group that they are a member of? I don't think you were saying that. We all have our life experiences.

Was that aimed at me from a previous unpleasant exchange we had or adding something you find valuable to this story? I don't know, but you should know that I've got no hard feelings. Not a double entendre ;0)