Your average gay, married, software developer.

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • People in groups that are constantly hate speached don’t want to spend their lives battling haters for denying their right to exist. It’s a never ending battle and it’s exhausting. I used to live that battle before hate speech against my group was made socially unacceptable.

    I was hate slurred and socially excluded every day at school. It made me hate school. I tried to fight it, I tried to ignore it, I tried a lot of things but the behavior persisted. The only thing that made it stop was a new administrator came in with a zero tolerance policy for hate. Suddenly, my tormentors apologized to me and tried to even befriend me in some instances.

    As an adult, a good example is when I was out on vacation with my family only to have slurs yelled at me at a gas station. My spouse slurred in the rest room (and also sexually harassed). As an adult, I don’t have the time or patience for these attacks. I should have peace when I am out minding my own business. Other people’s life is not a battle against those who wish they would not exist, mine should not be either.