OneBallBoi (imported) wrote: Sat Feb 16, 2013 6:04 pm
And family members regardless of the state can and often do discriminate.. Family members can make your life miserible. Their greatest goal is to hurt you in every way they can.
I came out to my family aged fifteen at a time when it was still illegal to be gay in my home country, not the UK where I now live. They were all very supportive and have treated me just the same as they always have, my parents both now elderly still visit my ex and stay with him, my brother and sister welcome me in their homes and their children treat me no differently to anyone else in the family, in fact when my niece was told of sexuality when she was old enough to understand, she thought it was cool to have a gay uncle, so not all of us have had bad experiences.
I live in Mexico, and according to some "real" sources, I was effectively fired because I am gay. Also, a lawyer who knos about this told me this is a pretty common cause to fire someone from their job. Because you can always litigate, they will say something different, and he told of many, may different cases. Among the lamest causes are: being indifferent towards your partners, using jewelry, (because it´s apparently a fetish), eating differently (beinga vegan, vegetarian or anything like that). Also, in Mexico, different companies will fire you when they discover you are a eunuch (it makes me think WTFH?). In order to hide this fact they will tell you many, many lies. In my case, they told me that I was rather flamboyant and I always wanted to atract attention from anyone.Other things include: you´re not what we want, you should work somewhere else, you have not the real skills we need, etc. I got tired from hiding my true interests about men and I ended accepting everything, we are people, we are not serial killers, not insane people, we are just different about what we feel for other people (A lot of people ask me about what I feel about kissing a cuddling with a man). we should not hide anymore. It´s not us nor about us, it´s about the people we are usually around us, unknowingly attacking in many ways, some of them are really cruel. Ok, but it´s not just about the bad things. Since acpeting my own homosexuality, I got pretty much happier. IIn my current job, A LOT OF PEOPLE know that I am gay (many of them got surprised to know actually) and are really, really supportive. Many people got better working with me, and many, many people are much more open to me. A lot of girls got dissapointed when they knew this, but also a lot of guys got pretty much
closer to me. It´s get weird because I thought I´d neglect again what I am. but now, I happily acept it. As I tell now: we should not hide anymore. It´s not us nor about us, it´s about the people we are usually around us
