If you pass for heterosexual...
Alright, so this may sound a little condescending, I hope you don't take it that way. I just get the impression that many of my straight, or passing as straight, friends have no idea how to deal with homophobia. Many think they do, but their responses are... let's just say, they aren't what I would do
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Yes, actually, I am. I'm wishing that ten people had all stood up en masse and said "this isn't right" to someone other than me. I'm wishing all one hundred or so people in the audience who applauded loudly for me had stood up and said something, or heard those ten saying it and muttered their agreement. I'm wishing that the homophobia I suffered had been made visible and had it's anonymity taken away. As the victim, I was visible, so why not the perpetrator? I'm wishing that fear of exposure, embarrassment, or visibility, didn't make people too afraid to speak up.Homophobia won't disappear if it isn't brought out into the open and made visible.
As for leather contests... well, I've never been popular for speaking my mind, but even the contests *here* are loaded. Sometimes people win because they are the only one running, even when they should never have been allowed to enter. People who don't well represent their community win titles that should have been retired years ago when they started begging for contestants.
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