I just unfriendead someone I went to school with. He made some transphobic and homophobic remarks about Pride month being “disgusting.” Yeah well maybe we gay folks find all you straight people holding hands and kissing in public disgusting. We are polite enough not to say anything. It is literally shoved in our face daily. And I saw someone made a post complaining how Pride month shouldn’t exist because there is no straight Pride month. Uh yeah there is. You basically have 12. You have the entire year to shove your heterosexuality down our throats and again we don’t complain!
I honestly had a fight about this at work on Tuesday and it still makes me mad. I'm from Canada but we still have a lot of home-schooled christian families who think they should run everyone else's lives... and I work for one of them... well they're a great family in some senses but HARDCORE christian and they home-school all their children because they don't want them to learn about normal morals like women's right, abortion, lgbt rights, other religions, etc. and there is only two of us working in the company who aren't part of the family.
Anyway this coworker of mine who isn't related to the family either and we're very close, brought up how Trump and Trudeau went at it and Trump is an idiot who needs to leave Trudeau alone, and then the owners brother comes in (who's some old drunk guy in the back shop) and is all like FAGGOTS CAN BE FAGGOTS BUT KEEP THAT **** AT HOME and "trudeau is an idiot, I respect trump so much, trudeau lets all these faggots have pride and they get to shove it in my face" and my friend and I just looked at each other like WTF is this old man on... and then I ended up saying how:
A) Gay people can be murdered in other countries, we are very very greatfull to be in North America where people can be who they want to be. Cis White people can go anywhere in the world basically and no be hunted down for who they are. That is why we have Pride Month.
B)Religion is shoved in your face WAY more than pride is, which is once a year. Religion is shoved in my face everytime I leave my house and I see 900000 churches all one block away from each other and I work here with crosses hanging.
Then in his muttering he's just like "I know I'm right" and I just decided... bygones be bygones, we actually work great together and I don't care enough to to continue the conversation was what I had really said afterwards. and Then I continued to take ALL the religious stuff off the walls and put up new decorations. Had anxiety all week because of it but I will change this family's attitude towards LGBT so we can all live happier.
I am SOO sure Romeo, the old drunk guy who is the owners brother, is like definitely closet gay and is so ashemd of himself because he was raised SUPER religious. It's sad actually but whatever lol.