Any time Any Friend of mine is discriminated against, I feel discriminated against - whether it is for their color, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. We are all human, period. And any time someone is denied access to something and treated as Less than Human, we all suffer. That is a proven.
It will be nice when the need to make someone lesser than someone else goes away.
Until then, all I can offer is *hugs* and the occasional e-mail to my congress critter to remind her of Paragraph #1.