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lightningandsnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-17-10 09:26 PM
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2. I honestly have a problem with the fact that....
homophobia is taken more seriously when it's directed at a straight person than LGBTQ folks.

I've been out since I was 13, and my parents attitude was that any homophobic bullying I received was my own fault for being openly queer. However, when my brother was the same age I was when I came out, he had a friend who started teasing him, took it a little too far, and started implying he was gay.

My parents called the school, made a big fuss, and the kid was suspended for three days and forced to write an apology letter.

They never lifted a finger to help me when I was being called a dyke by my classmates.

I'm not saying what happened to my brother was right, but the difference in how my parents reacted hurt like hell.
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