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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (32529)	10/13/2001 4:12:28 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

The "positive" is in making friends. Real friends, I would call them, without reservations. As an example, on my recent trip I made the acquantice of many people. Amazing the questions people ask of newly met people, all about their private lives. Now... some I scoped out from carefully asked questions to be uncomfortable with gays, so I didn't mention anything about my "private" life. How good of "friends" could we become? Those who I scoped to be comfortable, I talked openly with about my life, as they did theirs. No false explanations about why I'm not "married" were needed. No false explanations about why I don't have a "boyfriend". What could have been gained by "going public", was a friend. What was lost was a potential friend, because someone I felt the need to lie to in order not to disgust them, or have them turn me away, can not be a very close friend. And on the trip... I was punched in the face by one guy because I told him I was gay. Boom. Had a sore jaw for several days. And I didn't "volunteer" the information to "go public". He asked and I answered. What I "gained" was seeing the ugly underbelly of hatred. And the beauty of the people who stood up for me and made sure it didn't go any further than that one punch.