LGBTers and Allies: How LGBT Friendly is your Community?

[Smarmie Doofus]

13. It still sucks if you ask me.

I'm in NYC. No one's trying to murder me in the street. Everything ( homophobia-wise) is subtle and/or passive.

But it still seems all-pervasive. Adults ignore the topic entirely; if they are pressed they are superficially "tolerant". But silence =death.

Juveniles have incorporated the word "gay" into the vernacular as a synonym for "inferior" or "contemptible". Gay kids still have to hide their sexuality and most lgbt adults will prefer to get thru the workday day w/o having to discuss their lgbt status because it makes some people uncomfortable.

I voted "pretty bad". Again, no one's trying to kill me on the street. But someone on a crowded 44th street, two Saturday nights ago urged my friend and me ( a pretty mainstream-looking duo, I gotta say) as follows: "Will you fags move a little faster?"

Well... something like that hadn't happened to me personally in twenty years but the point is it still out there and it sucks.