Yeah I'm in the same boat with lengthy scrapped response. We're at a point that's demonstrated there is no solution to arguing with idiots, short of buying media outlets and correcting the narrative globally. People aren't willing to be persuaded by discussion, even with their own families. It's a signal-to-noise issue where the noise is all of the media propaganda that overpowers the signal of real world around them.

Being a gay ambassador isn't going to change any minds when the recipient gets bombarded by hate speech 24/7 on their favorite news outlets. So I think people should just be themselves and society has a responsibility to fix itself.

I know it's not a good answer, I don't think anyone has one or there wouldn't be a global rise in fascism. But it comes off as victim-blaming to put the responsibility on the oppressed, rather than the rest of society to fix it.