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Then surely his feedback would also have applied to any other bar as well, right? If we're treating both sides of the debate of whether people like me are allowed to exist or not as valid then surely I should get a heads-up that a bar is a straight one, or that it's straight & filled with conservative a-holes?

>Avoid it if they are conservative >This is valid Imo, this is not valid. And is part of the reason that homophobic people still exist in large numbers; exposure to gay people did the most for gay rights. We were no longer "them people". We were neighbours, their parents, their children. Exposure to minorities does the most help with destroying x-isms and phobias.

Not saying ppl have to go to gay bars, it's not about that. It's about the attitude.



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