I'm from Russia ( yes, the same place where it is so dangerous to be gay) and I'll finish high school this year. Now I'm having hard time in my class.
There is a homophobic guy in my class who's very hostile towards gay people and especially towards me. We've never really been friends, but once he found out I'm gay, he's treating me horrible. I never wanted to come out, but it happened that most of my classmates found out I'm gay. To my surprise most of them were accepting, except him and some more guys. He has never called me by my name, for him I'm faggot, queer and so on.
He laughs about me every time he can. Once I came to the class with a new T-shirt on and suddenly he asked loudly "didn't they have it in rainbow colors for our little mr I-love-it-in-the-ass?" Of course, most of the students were laughing. He has a small group of guys that he hangs out with and they also laugh about me, but they only do it when he starts it. When he's not present, no one offends me.
Every day he talks how much he hates gays, he's like "f*cking fags, you should all be shot dead". He has never attacked me physically, although sometimes he pushes me, as if accidentally and then he's like "oh sorry, did you get a boo boo?" I don't understand what have I done to make him hate me so much. He doesn't even know me. He's not the first person that had made homophobic remarks towards me, but for some reason his words hurt me very much.
Now we have a task to make a research project about some particular topic in groups of two and our teacher paired me with him. When the teacher is present, he's very polite and kind, but when the class is over, he completely refuses to work with me. We're supposed to do it together and he's just doing something on his own. The topic is quite hard to understand for me, as it's connected with chemistry and physics, that's not my strong point. He understands these subjects perfectly but he won't ever explain it to me.
What should I do? I won't get a mark if I won't do my part in this project. I don't have anyone to help me, no one in my family or around my friends is strong in chemistry and physics. I tried to ask teacher's help however she said she has lots of work to do and advised to ask help from this guy, as he's very good student( and he is, he's top of the class). The teacher told me that she could have let us choose which person we want to work with, but that's not good, as we have to learn to cooperate with different people. She was kind, but somewhere in her voice there was a tone of "cope with your problems yourself".
He can't possibly get a zero, because I'm sure he'll do his part brilliantly. We're supposed to do half of the research each, then put everything together and present in the end. It is too late to switch partners, as the topics have already been given.
He's just like "f*cking fag, stay away from me". What do I do?
There is a homophobic guy in my class who's very hostile towards gay people and especially towards me. We've never really been friends, but once he found out I'm gay, he's treating me horrible. I never wanted to come out, but it happened that most of my classmates found out I'm gay. To my surprise most of them were accepting, except him and some more guys. He has never called me by my name, for him I'm faggot, queer and so on.
He laughs about me every time he can. Once I came to the class with a new T-shirt on and suddenly he asked loudly "didn't they have it in rainbow colors for our little mr I-love-it-in-the-ass?" Of course, most of the students were laughing. He has a small group of guys that he hangs out with and they also laugh about me, but they only do it when he starts it. When he's not present, no one offends me.
Every day he talks how much he hates gays, he's like "f*cking fags, you should all be shot dead". He has never attacked me physically, although sometimes he pushes me, as if accidentally and then he's like "oh sorry, did you get a boo boo?" I don't understand what have I done to make him hate me so much. He doesn't even know me. He's not the first person that had made homophobic remarks towards me, but for some reason his words hurt me very much.
Now we have a task to make a research project about some particular topic in groups of two and our teacher paired me with him. When the teacher is present, he's very polite and kind, but when the class is over, he completely refuses to work with me. We're supposed to do it together and he's just doing something on his own. The topic is quite hard to understand for me, as it's connected with chemistry and physics, that's not my strong point. He understands these subjects perfectly but he won't ever explain it to me.
What should I do? I won't get a mark if I won't do my part in this project. I don't have anyone to help me, no one in my family or around my friends is strong in chemistry and physics. I tried to ask teacher's help however she said she has lots of work to do and advised to ask help from this guy, as he's very good student( and he is, he's top of the class). The teacher told me that she could have let us choose which person we want to work with, but that's not good, as we have to learn to cooperate with different people. She was kind, but somewhere in her voice there was a tone of "cope with your problems yourself".
He can't possibly get a zero, because I'm sure he'll do his part brilliantly. We're supposed to do half of the research each, then put everything together and present in the end. It is too late to switch partners, as the topics have already been given.
He's just like "f*cking fag, stay away from me". What do I do?
