hm maybe it's just me but I don't think he meant it in a homophobic way, idk I feel like sometimes older ppl just talk like that 😭 he probably meant it in a kind way

I’m in AZ, so it’s a mixed bag, especially where I’m at we’re a bit closer to ASU so it tends to be a little more progressive/accepting. In June, a customer had given me a pride pin that was just a heart in rainbow color, so I was wearing that (so cool to be given it by a customer). And a guy saw my pin and said “oh are you a part of the lgbt?” And I was a bit unsure how to answer, the guy came in fairly regularly but the tone he asked was a bit judgmental. As I was thinking of how to answer and quickly just said yeah, hoping to move on, he said that’s good we need more love and less hate or something along those lines, but I’ll tell you for a minute as a trans, queer, person I was very worried about where the convo was heading.

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Acknowledging your differences isn’t necessarily a form of hate, a truly homophobic person would treat you like you’re sub human. He may have just assumed that since you’re in the Bible Belt you might generally have a harder time fitting in other places

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