So, have you had anything awful happen to you because you are gay or whatev? Gaybashed? Etc? I need examples for my personal interest project.

nothing really horrible has happened to me, touch wood.
i got some abuse at school though, i was spat at and stuff, there was grafitti about me in the toilets at school, all round the cubicle in huge letters it said how i was a dirty dyke & i was gonna get 'fucked up', but they were so retarded they spelt my name wrong.

ewww thats mean. has anything happened to your gay friends or anything?

My friend who came out as lesbian after being married and having kids, said that when her and her girlfriend were in Brighton at a Gay Pride march someone said "fucking dykes!" and she replied "State the bleeding obvious why don't ya!"

it was sorta kinda not subtle but this is the only thing that comes to mind

in my performance art class we had this woman in her 40s...super christian
anyway she had just performed and we were going to critique it
well apart from being lame the issue of whether she was being judgemental or critical came up

i decided to jump in since no one was sayin much and told her i had issue with the fact that i got she was criticizing pop culture and its over sexness but that i didnt get why she had a picture of lance bass with the the text that followed it reading "unnatural"
that because of that i felt she was now being judgemental since i know she's christian and probbaly homophobic as well

she then began her statement with "Gaby i know you're homsexual, but i think you're ok..." (never had i stated that i was gay in that class...not that i'm not out but i don't know how she could have deduced this fact since its never been brought up in anyway shape or form)

my professor flipped out and started yelling at her. it turned into this huge thing.
the woman tried getting out of the hole by bringing my friend jon (who's gay) with her and saying "jon knows i care about him, we've talked after class before, he knows i don't hate him"

etc etce etc etc

Nothing horrible like that has happened to me due to my sexual preference. I truly feel it's because I don't EXPECT anything like that to happen to me. I don't fear being assaulted or discriminated against. Or it could be a coincidence. But I prefer to think it has something to do with the law of attraction.

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yea cause the image she had of him was from a magazine and the headline was like "I'M GAY!!"

I'm with SBeakon. I think that because I don't really stress my sexuality that I get cut much slack for it.

I do remember coming out to someone in my class. Apparently, they had this whole discussion one time about whether I was gay or not. Then she was going on about how she was going to go gay in class. It made people very uncomfortable.
She wasn't one of those gay obsessed people though, just a very social off-beat person. I miss her, she was great. I don't meet gay people I'd spend time with very often.

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I meant it sarcastically.

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well black people and construction workers and low life bums have yelled fag at me on the street. That used to happen frequently for a while but for some reason it hasn't happened lately and I'm glad about it, hopefully it never happens again, it would make me feel really bad.

I feel people staring at me at places and treating me coldly because I'm gay, sometimes outward rude. I don't know why because even though I look gay it's not incredibly flamboyant but most people hate me for some reason, and they don't even know me.

I've gotten to a point of not caring.

maybe they just recognised you from gaydar?

I get the feeling that these two paragraphs conflict in a big way. Are you really comfortable yet?

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I don't have my picture on gaydar.

heh ok

yea when i was mentioning it in class i said something like "...unless you're not criticizing him about being gay which in that case i've never rly seen him as a big slutty whore, but maybe you know something else we don't"

eh, this has happened to me before and I'm not gay. Hell, I'm not even a man and I don't think I look like one. sorry to say this is just a word some people use as an insult. I doubt they really knew or cared about your sexual preference.

how do you know it's because you're gay? I treat lots of people this way and it's not because I think they're gay & am a homophobe, it's just because generally speaking, I despise humanity.

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I'm never going to be comfortable with who I am. I've just accepted it. It's like Cher never being comfortable with the way she looks, she said she's never going to be able to accept herself, I think that's great instead of living her life in denial disguised as possitive acceptance.

So yeah I'm never going to be comfortable with who I am but it doesn't bother me anymore to be such an outcast.

I mean it's like I don't even go to clubs anymore. Straight ones that is. I mean I just got to a point where I asked, why do I have to take bullshit from this losers who thinks he can treat me badly just because they are straight beasts, I mean men and I'm gay and thin??

I'm making life inventory too, like I've pushed away all of my straight friends. I don't give a fuck. I have a very good gay friend and his boyfriend, those are my friends and it's gay life from now on. I don't care about being intimate with anyone straight. We didn't have anythijng in common in the first place. But yeah.


OMG, I just overtake every thread in here and make a self pity thing. But oh well, you do what you can.

well i despise humanity too but it can't be that everyone despises humanity and I'm the target, I mean it's not like that.

Well that's fucking depressing.
I don't see why you can't be comfortable with yourself when a lot of us gays have managed to be. I'm sure it's possible for you, just requires a lot of huge tuning.

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when my ex-gf and I were walking downtown holding hands, some guy leaned out of his car and yelled "Fags!" at us.

it was actually kinda funny.