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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  No, I don’t agree with this at all.

  I grew up in the 90s when being gay was “bad” (societys words, not mine). I live in Cleveland, but a suburb of Cleveland is Lakewood. San Fransisco is Americas gayest city. Lakewood is (was?) Americas second gayest city (at least in the 90s it was).

  I lived right on the Lakewood border. About 7 streets away. And just to give an idea of how anti-gay the 90s were, I can remember a guy getting handcuffed to a chain link fence, and beaten by 4 men with bats. Beaten to literal death. With his dead body lay prone and still handcuffed from 2:30am until 7am on a busy street until a mother called the police as she walked her 5 year old to school (this was 2 blocks from an elementary school)

  That’s the environment I grew up in. People CONSTANTLY accused me of being gay. I’m not. I never have been gay. But I grew up being taught you better make sure you deny it. If nothing else, so people don’t beat you.

  Now I realize, we no longer live in that social environment. But I also assume Jews in Europe in the 1960s still would downplay the fact they were Jewish. Sure, the nazis weren’t a thing anymore, but if you’d seen the holocaust you wouldn’t take chances either.

  Plus, being a teenager in the 90s, I thought “If the girls think I’m gay, I’ll never get laid…” which was true. They still thought I was gay, and I didn’t get to date until after high school.

  And thats how I stay today. I have enough of an uphill battle to dating. I don’t need women disqualifying me for something that isn’t true.

  Now if YOU wanna be gay, go ahead. I always think if more guys are gay, that makes things easier for me.

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  • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This is the weirdest homophobic and also misogynistic take I’ve read. You took “I’ve got nothing against the gaus, but…” to a new deranged level.

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    • meco03211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      He’s like only part way there. I grew up in the 90s too when being gay was “bad”. In my younger years I would have absolutely said I’m not homophobic but would have made damn sure no one thought I was. Spoiler alert. It was homophobic even if I didn’t realize it. However in my older years I recognize that for what it was.

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  • NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m not saying that just because someone says you’re gay, you can’t correct them without being homophobic. I’m saying that the people that people that go out of their way to make sure everyone knows they’re not gay, who get offended at the idea of being mistaken for gay are acting homophobic.

    I grew up in approximately the same era as you in a very conservative area, and yeah, there was a lot of homophobic behavior and slurs. But if someone asked if I was gay in this day and age, I think anything more than a quick correction is over-reacting.

    But hey, that’s just my opinion; you’re welcome to yours. Have a good day friend!

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  • secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Based on your persuasive arguments, ive decided to be gay.

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    • JustAPenguin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s so gay

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    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Good choice. We have the best sex.

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