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[–]8bitgay 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I disagree with the previous comment. I can't say if it's the same in other countries, but in mine I feel like we got pockets of acceptance. When you got a social bubble of people that are LGB or allies, it's easy to feel like everything is fine. However, it is very easy to notice that homophobia still exists whenever I get out of these pockets. Sometimes getting outside of these pockets makes me feel offended, sometimes it makes me feel actually threatened. I haven't experienced actual physical violence, but I have experienced random people threatening to assault me just because I didn't look straight enough to them.

And the thing is that even these pockets of acceptance don't accept us well anymore. Now they only accept us as long as they think we'd date trans people, among other homophobic "rules" we have to follow.