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The really really flamboyantly gay guys kinda give me the willies. I just can't talk to gay guys at all. It's just...awkward. I was raised in a conservative part of the country, and, well...their kind ain't welcome in these here parts.
[cue riff from Deliverance]
Consequentially I haven't been that exposed to gay people or gay culture. Therefore...I have no idea whatsoever how to talk to a gay guy in person without offending someone.
For some reason I never get this problem with the lesbians. Gay guys make me all "eeeeh" and I can't say a word, but get me talking to some lesbians and I'm perfectly fine.
I have been accused of being homophobic. Oddly enough, never by actual homosexuals. It's usually coming from teenage girls who are into yaoi and slash. And it's just because I can't stand the yaoi fanbase.
My dad on the other hand...
He's convinced, convinced there's some kind of gay agenda. Some kind of secret gay conspiracy to undermine the values our country was supposedly founded on, prey on our children (always with the children.) and take over the country.
..WTF? I mean, seriously. WHAT gay agenda? And this is coming from a moderate conservative.
The only gay agenda I see in existence is to end the kind of stupidity that gives rise to homophobia and discrimination against people who aren't cisgendered and straight.
And from what I understand, most gays just want to be left alone. Hooking that back to my awkwardness. If someone is very obviously gay, I do not feel comfortable talking to them because their apparent homosexuality is pretty much an elephant in the room. It's right there in the open, but I can't bring myself to say a word about it because I'm afraid of offending someone.
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