Cimorene

So much depends on WHAT you say in those public spaces, too, because social norms DO govern how acceptable different levels of, say, intimacy and confrontational behaviour are. People who expect you to say something to them in public, even if they don't actually know what you're going to say, have certain expectations about it, and that is going to govern their response - whether it's their surprise at you claiming everyone who likes their OTP is a pedophile leading to them making a more confrontational response than is usually socially acceptable, or their astonishment at receiving what they find to be a disproportionately confrontational response to an expression of innocent joy and goodwill.

If people stopped trying to make the debate about "rights", it would be at least a little more productive.