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I lived in Dallas and it is the only place I've lived where people would scream homophobic slurs at me in the street. I wouldn't say I'd never move back, but th
by munin 7y ago
I lived in Dallas and it is the only place I've lived where people would scream homophobic slurs at me in the street. I wouldn't say I'd never move back, but the situation would have to be dire for me to consider it. Definitely cut your hair if you visit.
- bsagdiyev 7y agoThat's not unique to Texas, just assholes. I've seen it here in San Diego while walking through Hillcrest.
- munin 7y agoI dunno, 40 years of living in other places, stuff like this only happens in Texas and the South. There are definitely assholes in NY and Boston but they won't get up in my grill for "looking gay" on the street so that's pretty neat.
- bsagdiyev 7y agoI concede and won't argue with personal experience. It sucks that it is still a thing anywhere, hopefully we'll get there some day.
- scurvy 7y agoIt happened to me in Chicago, twice in one weekend. All I did was wear a pink shirt and walk down the street. That was enough to garner homophobic slurs. I'm not gay and when I mentioned it to one of my Chicago friends, and he just shrugged his shoulders and said, "Yeah." tl;dr jerks are everywhere
- ausjke 7y agoDallas is actually very liberal, it's a blue city, totally blue,
- Aloha 7y agoWhen did you move away? I've been visiting here on and off for a decade before I decided to move here, and I've never experienced this.