The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks of authenticity and virtue, of suffering and oppression.
John Derbyshire, We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism
egotism, hedonish, selfishness, vanity