09-10-2012, 09:21 PM
As much as I wish I could tell you otherwise, there is no place that we won't get called names and have someone that hates us just for being gay. Some places have fewer people like that than others, but there are homophobic people everywhere you go.
If you are going to stay in the closet until there is an entire city where no one hates us for being gay, then you'll be in that closet for life. My advice would be to get a thicker skin, don't let that bother you and just come out and live your life your way. Let them sneer and call you names, it's their problem if they can't handle you being a happy, openly gay man.
If I hid every time someone has called me "fag, pretty boy, queer." or worse, I'd never get anywhere. I figure either they are closeted and hiding behind a wall of anger, jealous, or just plain ignorant and, let then go their way. I don't have to let those people affect me, just words. I could stoop to their level and call them breeders, dumb asses, or worse but I choose to be better than that, and I chose to live my life openly.
If you are going to stay in the closet until there is an entire city where no one hates us for being gay, then you'll be in that closet for life. My advice would be to get a thicker skin, don't let that bother you and just come out and live your life your way. Let them sneer and call you names, it's their problem if they can't handle you being a happy, openly gay man.
If I hid every time someone has called me "fag, pretty boy, queer." or worse, I'd never get anywhere. I figure either they are closeted and hiding behind a wall of anger, jealous, or just plain ignorant and, let then go their way. I don't have to let those people affect me, just words. I could stoop to their level and call them breeders, dumb asses, or worse but I choose to be better than that, and I chose to live my life openly.