News Feed for 2011-11-30
- General Amos admits he was wrong on DADT repeal and says that implementation went well without harming unit cohesion http://t.co/eSURMXHi #
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News Feed for 2011-11-28
- Australian Marriage Equality Ad explains without saying a word, why marriage equality should be a no brainer. http://t.co/xFt5uRgO #
- Brighton is considering an official "Gay Quarter" although some fear a ghetto effect http://t.co/f2nj3MnH #
- Université du Québec has started a research chair to study the phenomena of homophobia http://t.co/cWILToTY #
- Rush Limbaugh continues to blame Larry King and those who supported him for his death http://t.co/JEp9oM98 #
- Pope tries to shift blame for AIDS away from his genocidal opposition to condom usage bit.ly/vlQJpW #
- Monster in St Pauls who raped a trans man (discovered trans status while stealing) is sent down for at least 27 years http://t.co/vobvycEe #
- Nigeria moves forward with its plan to further criminalize gay relationships http://t.co/Rm7p1nYa #
- Google steps up to provide gold standard levels of care for its transgender employees http://t.co/Wcb9QlVK #wpath #
- Soldier booed at republican debate and insulted by @ricksantorum speaks out http://t.co/LARwawul #
- Polish court allows neo-nazi group to officially register a homophobic symbol as their official govt recognized symbol http://t.co/UpIx8MjR #
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News Feed for 2011-11-16
- Unsurprisingly gay and lesbian couples are more enthusiastic about marriage than about civil unions http://t.co/a6Y31OLo #
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News Feed for 2011-11-15
- Dan Savage defends his record on trans-issues http://t.co/DTH5GbH2 #
- Persecuted Ugandan women's rugby player granted asylum in Germany http://t.co/tzuJmfef #queergenocide #uganda #
- Protest planned outside the Nigerian Embassy protesting prop law that would make campaigning for queer rights illegal http://t.co/eItlejMd #
- St Petersburg mulls a law that would ban open queer rights movements http://t.co/npzkmcuS #russia #protofacist #queerrights #
- Thousands attend funeral of Scott Walker http://t.co/3eAryukI #
- 2 Malaysian states attempt to make life even harder for their queer citizens http://t.co/F2PEleRM #
- George Michael calls the treatment of gay characters on Eastenders harmful http://t.co/afB6aQ99 #
- The Ugandan goverment's fall guy for the David Kato assassination is sent down for 30 years http://t.co/0pseSqaS #
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News Feed for 2011-11-09
- Benjamin Franklin was an early ally to queer americans http://t.co/cojF3zpQ #
- NH republican talks to about his relationship with his God, and the gay son that God blessed him with http://t.co/cojF3zpQ #
- 5 good reasons (but not the only reasons) that the LGBT community should protect and fight for the T component http://t.co/adqhYFHx #
- Evangelical christian mother talks about how her gay son and brother are intentional creations of God http://t.co/5I3XotS6 #
- Boy Scouts of America has covered up thousands of cases of child molestation http://t.co/PnrEfcKK #
- Often prom is heteronormative, and discriminatory but once in a while something wonderful happens http://t.co/CiE2nXfL #
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News Feed for 2011-11-08
- Christian right "experts" try to address the criticism of Ammedment 26 and instead prove all the horrible truths of it http://t.co/3ooJfevC #
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Dealing with homophobia from a colleague
So I had a fairly interesting situation at work where one of my new colleagues had a bit of a freak out about the sticker thats on the back of my laptop. Its was just a generic stonewall one saying “Some people are gay. Get over it!”.
He launched into a bit of diatribe about how he didnt agree with gay people, and how it was against nature. I’ve encountered a few homophobic and transphobic people in real life, but this is the first time its been in a situation where this is someone I’m directly involved with at work.
The guy is probably mid 30s, and continued on about children as part of lesbian and gay families. I said a bit about all the studies were there proving that children do just as well in queer familes as heteronormative families, but just as I was about to let “Activist Gemma” out, i bit my tongue.
After I avoided the argument, he seemed to calm down a bit and the subject changed. I don’t know if the topic will come up again in the morning, but I hope this is the last I hear of it.
At the time i was proud of myself that I held back, I thought I was doing the sensible thing, he is nominally my superior and we are both contractors, and what would an argument get us but showing us the door….
However was I just being cowardly and being a good queer? I could really do with some feedback about how you would react, or have reacted.