I am hetero and I wonder what its like and how life is different being gay. I mean, as for where I live, there is a gay community and outside of it yet within the city there is a fairly tolerable society. But all I can see is my city and the point of veiws from my homegrown gay friends. I have a passion for learning about everyone that is different from me, so I would really adore hearing your stories and your point of veiw from where you live and such...
lol @ Melty i'm from Canada too.The immigrants are ultra homophobic though. my parents are greek+arabic so they would kill me. If i come out, it would be in college.
yall need to get down south more yeah there's a LGBT community thing but more than anything there's a bunch of redneck bigots who would string you up just for looking gay
in the uk where i live its not as bad as i thought when i was in the closet i was scared shitless but not know i have come out i think they respect me more. in the town were i live there arn't that many people out as gay and the ones that are do get some stick but i don't really mabey becus they new i was gay all along and have just accepted it. but i do get people laughing at me and i heard people saying eww he's gay but i just don't care i just get on with it and shoe them that i don't care its quite fun to be honest
Canada is generally a tolerating society when it comes to sexuality. The problem is rural areas and new immigrants. Many immigrants I know are very homophobic.
Its not really that hard.. one finds that the more religious an area is the more difficult it is to come out in. Most people use their religion as an excuse to hate something they do not understand and in their religion they find a group who feels how they do.. and a person on their own can be reasoned with.. but people in a group become blind stupid panicy animals who feel that conforming and belonging is more important than their own thoughts. I myself found it relatively easy to come out about my attraction to men.. a very certain one infact.. but I myself was raised in a very religious back ground and until I was able to get myself away from the closed eyes and flock mentality I was unable to see myself for what I was. I still have my belief and such.. but I also have a better understanding of who I am and why I thought how I did when I was younger.. and managed to deprogram alot of those social indoctrinations that people attempt to force on you as a child. Blah.. I am rambling now.
dude keep on rambling what your saying is very very true as a matter of fact I'm still trying to deprogram myself from all this religious anti-gay bullshit
Well I do know that they use the fact that a part of what is in most bibles is that it says. "Should a man lay with another man let both those men be killed." But what most fail to realize was that back in those days population was power.. the more people you have the more power you have.. and same sex couples do not produce offspring. So ofcourse to counter this offset of couples that would not produce more offspring would be to scare them into not being who they are. Now adays the world is suffering from.. well lets just say surplus of bodies. There are to many people and not enough to support them. So such a policy being used still to keep population on the rise is just pointless now.
Hmmm, straight people Unless they live in a 'gay' suburb or have a decent amount of interaction with gay friends. Its always the same, the femme side of gay they can identify and somewhat deal with, the butch side of gay they seem to choose to ignore. or its too confronting to face. a guy can only be gay if he's camp and girly; that kind of thing From my perspective, teen years certainly seem worse for gay guys, a very confusing time. But from after high school onwards, boy, life seems a whole lot easier and more fun as a gay guy But then I live near Sydney, plenty of other gay guys around
For me, its much the same as being straight. People don't give me crap for it. I only tell people that I can trust, but I know it gets round. Where I lived before though...Eek! If they knew I was gay, it would've been even more of a living hell than it already was As for the place I was living before the place I was living before the place I'm in now (I hope that made sense :S), the people there were and still are all incredibly open with the whole gay thing. The school I was at for example - I know of at least 5 or 6 gay guys, all in the same grade. What's scary is that a lot of them hang out together, and I used to hang out with them a little too before I knew they were gay The school I'm at now...I don't know of a single other openly gay guy.
