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In reply to the discussion: ATTN DU! A warning about gay & lesbian neighbors. This happened to me. [View all]Irish_Dem
(45,638 posts)10. My gay neighbors brought me food and shoveled my snow when I broke my leg this year.
Other gay neighbors kept up my morale during the election with Biden flags and pep talks.
They saved my sanity. They decorate outdoors for every holiday and I enjoy it a great deal, makes me smile.
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ATTN DU! A warning about gay & lesbian neighbors. This happened to me. [View all]
Botany
Dec 2020
OP
When I had surgery a few years ago, they brought food for days and offered to take care of me while
redstatebluegirl
Dec 2020
#2
You will have a choice in the matter only after all your old friends try to hook you up...
Hassin Bin Sober
Dec 2020
#80
My neighborhood has several of these people and we have come to expect such deviant....
RussellCattle
Dec 2020
#3
My husband and I were the handymen in the building of the condo we just sold.
Hassin Bin Sober
Dec 2020
#82
Gay people rock! I have never known anyone gay who wasn't the nicest, kindest, most thoughtful
LaMouffette
Dec 2020
#8
Gay people are human beings, with the normal amount of good qualities and flaws.
pnwmom
Dec 2020
#53
I'm sorry about the othering! I guess "Gay people rock!" is a pretty broad generalization,
LaMouffette
Dec 2020
#107
Yup, and I should've known better too due a work project I did recently about disability rights.
LaMouffette
Jan 2021
#109
My gay neighbors brought me food and shoveled my snow when I broke my leg this year.
Irish_Dem
Dec 2020
#10
Interesting, play mediates the stress response to make it more functional in the future.
Irish_Dem
Dec 2020
#36
I don't think it was in that video but I have seen both the dog and then the bear showing each ...
Botany
Dec 2020
#39
Right, husky just sat there. Didn't look like he much of a choice, but he didn't fight it.
Irish_Dem
Dec 2020
#41
OMG really! so what is the word I am looking for.... awesome! 😊 My daughter is Gay and
Demsrule86
Dec 2020
#17
I appreciate that there are so many people who aren't antagonistic toward gay people.
David__77
Dec 2020
#24
I hope the same thing David. Young people today seem much more accepting of the fluidity of
Irish_Dem
Dec 2020
#48
Quick, call up some evilgelicals. Maybe the news will put them in a coma.
Hermit-The-Prog
Dec 2020
#34
Well I barely know one of the couples who dropped off cookies and since they are both ....
Botany
Dec 2020
#46
After we moved out of our old house the gay neighbors saved the life of the neighbor
GulfCoast66
Dec 2020
#44
To their friends and neighbors, my parents looked like heterosexual grandparents.
pnwmom
Dec 2020
#70
WARNING: we (gays) give our straight neighbors goodies and they even give us goodies back! n/t
AntiFascist
Dec 2020
#64
NO!!! Please tell me they didn't force their cookie-eating lifestyle on you!
CaptainTruth
Dec 2020
#94
And worst of all: they like to buy vintage - but run-down - homes, and fix them up!
sandensea
Dec 2020
#98
Double income, educated, and they fixup homes and raise the property value too.
Botany
Dec 2020
#100