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    [–]yayblueberries 16 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

    I was one of very few lesbians at a large LGBTQAAA_&*#$&#@ Support Group and I got treated like I didn't belong there. I'm sure the transfolk felt I had it easier than them because I didn't have to deal with all of their issues, which they are right about, and the gay men there, who were a bit older, felt like they were the ones who started the entire LGBTQ+ everything. So many references to the 80s and what they had to deal with, despite that gays have had to deal with bullshit well before that. I'm glad I left, never really felt more excluded from anything in my life. They wouldn't even let me have a voice in that group.

    [–]southpaw 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Did they not let you talk or did they cut you off and not listen? You are not the first person I've heard of going to a LGBTQ+ event and being excluded. I knew an older gay man who went to one and was one of the few homosexuals there and he felt rather excluded. In his case the crowd was much younger. I'm sorry that happened.

    [–]yayblueberries 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    I was interrupted the first time, and then raised my hand and was ignored. I also tried talking about this to the woman running this thing after, and was treated like I was being annoying. I would have fought harder to have a voice, but I that town's Pride was also a joke, nothing but a bunch of crappy businesses trying to sell their garbage and no celebration at all. Just marketing to take money from gay and trans folk. I don't live there anymore because the entire town this was in has all sorts of ridiculous social problems anyway (increasingly huge gentrification and active fighting against any attempts to put in affordable housing despite that low wage people are the actual people who keep the town going, being one).