Reply #46: It always comes out of nowhere

[Politicub]

and - wham! The reality of bigotry knocks you upside the head. I've been out at work, home, to my family, etc. for more than 10 years.

Less than two weeks ago my grandfather passed away. My grandmother wanted me and my partner to be two of his pallbearers. My grandfather knew and loved my parnter.

Well, the funeral was very rural baptist in NC. The preacher during his remarks decided to talk about homoesexuality, and how it ruins a man's name, and Sodomy, and Lot, and Sodom and Gammorah... the whole sad sphiel. My partner was sitting next to me in the front row. I felt like I had been kicked in the stomach. It was like I was less than two inches tall.

Bigotry sometimes rears its head. I didn't let the experience diminish me, although it saddened me very much that my grandfather's funeral was marred by this old bigot.

Having this happen to me, and reading stories like yours, only forment my resolve to keep fighting for full equality for *all* people. There is much work to be done, even among those people whom we thought we could feel safe and accepted.

:hug: