How would you feel?

[Harke the Boeotarch]

"You're only writing this because you want to smoke me."

 

[backagain]

not normally but if it is the owner, I guess I wouldn't be surprised. He's pretty shady all around.

I would of written underneath that, so isn't (bar owners name)

 

[SaskGuy]

Oh my god, that is awful. I used to live in a small town, and I know how horribly homophobic everyone is... even if they're otherwise nice people. You can't really blame them though, it's just the cultural norm, and most of them have never even knowingly met a gay person.

I've been called gay before, in high school (I was deeply closeted then). it wasn't teasing though, just a joke... but it still fills you with fear. What if they know? What would they do to you if they knew you were really gay? How would the town treat you and your family? Oh man, I did enjoy living there, but looking back, it was terrible to feel like you can't tell anyone, and you have to hide who you really are at all costs for fear of what might happen if anyone knew. No one else in school, or even the whole town was out of the closet so I didn't even know what would have happened to me.
As much as I loved living there, the lifestyle, the people, being out in the country and away from it all, living in such a homophobic place screwed me up a little bit.

 

[JPGhost]

if i were you, i just giggled

 

[tarallucci]

Place a hidden camera and publish spy cam piss videos

Seriously. I would just keep living as before, going to the bar and maybe try to find out who wrote that if you're interested in knowing.

 

[otters]

I live in small town. gays are not well liked here. I went to a small local bar and used the bathroom. As I looked at the stall wall, I see "______ is a fag!" it said my full name! I was humiliated. How many people have seen this and NOT said anything to me? All I could feel was that people at the bar were laughing at me behind my back. The owner of the bar & I used to be close friends, but had a falling out. (He is in the closet btw) He is very popular in town and he has a lot of friends, so I cant complain to him. For all I know he could have been the guy to have written it. I tried to wipe it off but it was etched into the wall with a key or something.

Maybe I am over-reacting but I haven't stepped foot in there since. I am just to humiliated.

Of course you feel offended. I would say one could react in a satirical manner, e.g.: strike through the "a fag" and write "Pregnant—By Whom?"

 

[pat grimshaw]

...I went to a small local bar and used the bathroom. As I looked at the stall wall..

That place must be filthy if it allows graffiti on its walls. I wouldn't go there.