It is one of the rules of Internet - you are male, English speaking American.

(I am not an american though, so I technically don’t exist)

(overly emphasising on the gay part rather than the rescue part)

that was my whole point - how rescue does adding the word gay add to conversation - we might as well add there racial identity, ethiniicity and what not /s. Maybe using “bad light” was not appropriate wording - let me rephrase it better - we are focussing on wrong thing here - instead of focusing on rescue, we are focussing on the fact they are gay - I dont have problem with them being gay - but that is not the very fabric of their being is it. Whenever we try to put labels on people we ignore there lives as a whole and just focus on labels.

let my try to show my point of view from an example - just switching one wword from title

• Gay cruise rescues refugees adrift in Gulf of Mexico

• Indian cruise rescues refugees adrift in Gulf of Mexico

• American cruise rescues refugees adrift in Gulf of Mexico

• Alien cruise rescues refugees adrift in Gulf of Mexico

In any of these situations did the meaning really change. Just some part of identity of rescuers changed. Now from persepective of this community - Uplifiting news, what is the uplifting news - I am presuming - rescue happened. Does identity matter here.

Maybe I am wrong - then correct me - does the the identity matter here?

I am sorry, but why do we have to specify they are “gay cruise” - I am not against LGBTQIA+ folks, but I think one of the things for equality is proper acceptance, and mentioning gay cruise definitely puts a bad light on it (overly emphasising on theee gay part rather than the rescue part). And it also unnecessarily adds to the stereotypes (which I would not be explaining here). Not homophobeic, but i would have prefered if title would have been - A cruise rescues …