I’m an LGBT ally, but I decided to show support with LGBT flag in a pretty red area next to highway. I got the f slur thrown at me and a fishing reel handle thrown at me (didn’t hit me). Just the experience itself affects me. Idk how the LGBT community in general does it or if it’s just different for everyone.

I guess it was a small number of people. There was some love.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    6 days ago

    See, this is why I don’t know why anyone would say it’s a choice. David Cross said it himself, but what kid is sitting there thinking “you know, I know that I don’t find being with a man attractive at all, but, what if I c just chose to do that instead, also inviting endless ridicule and hatred towards me in the process. Yeah! Hat sounds like something I want to choose to do”.

    Lgbtq folks are some of the bravest I know, admitting to the world that they are who they are knowing what anger and hatred will be (sometimes literally) thrown at them due to arbitrary rules we as a society have

    • cub Gucci@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      5 days ago

      While this comment passes a vibe check, let’s not pretend that there are no gays and trans in denial that still are pretty comfortable with that.

      I love the recent LGBTQ+ tendency to steal the narrative of being LGBTQ+ as a choice. It’s a choice, a brave one, to love people who you love, to fight for it, and not to hide this part of human nature as if it doesn’t exist.