Contra-acceptance

[sox-and-the-city]

Again i think my upbringing hinders me form having much of any real validity to say to any of this here...

Being mixed race and gay i find treating anyone who's different for whatever reason utterly reprehensible.

Even living in one of the richest areas in Scotland back home in the really quite cosmopolitan Edinburgh i've seen from a very young age the nastiness of people who both don't and should know better. The way my mum gets treated for being black, and subsequently the way people treat me differently when i'm with her can be really really shocking. Similarly, when i'm out with my straight friends i get treated totally differently from how i do out on my own, or with my gays...

I think acceptance and all the other things we seek IS a possibility, but a remote one. I guess every small step is a victory. It's just we all have to take it one toe at a time...

I'm just a controversial character generally, so i'm used to the stares and the comments. And i'm getting really quite good at changing people's minds, too. I make a point of wearing a jaunty bow in my hair and if i want to hold a guy's hand i'll bloody well do it. To hell with the stares.

xxx