Family disputes gay server's story

[Chan790]

39. I'm not sure it has to come up in conversation.

I've had customers assume, to the extent that they felt comfortable commenting on it...on account of my speech impediment (I'm hard-of-hearing and slightly stutter and trip/lisp over words.) and the fact that I'm effete in mannerisms. I've been called f*gg*t before by customers too. I've also been called a {black person, except they used a word beginning with n and ending with r.}...which is strange because I'm Scottish, Native American and Syrian: I don't even look black...possibly Hispanic, but not black. I'm categorically beige...most often people think I'm Mediterranean of some sort: Spanish, Italian, Greek, Moroccan, etc.

You have clearly never worked in a public-facing position if you think clients and customers never make assumptions on your sexuality or other personal traits based on observation and intuition, faulty or otherwise. They don't have to know you're gay...to "know" you're gay. You don't have to be *anything* to draw the attentions, ire and invective of morons for that matter.