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Originally Posted by uke_master
I've never met an LGBT person who comes off as if they are better than others. I know right wing social media likes to super amplify any example of an LGBT person who goes too far outside their imagined lines, and that person is held up for group vilification. Maybe that's what you are talking about. But 99% of LGBT are just normal folks living their lives.
I figured you would know by now that I follow any right wing media. Nearly all I know about it is from this forum.
No, I'm talking about at medium to large events, especially music shows, in Portland. Probably at other west coast cities as well, but I haven't been to enough of those to judge.
The majority of the shows I go to include at least some LGBT performers, and at some of them cishet people are a definite minority.
I have gotten funny looks as an older white guy of conservative appearance. Occasionally more than that.
I have been to quite a few shows where someone on stage asks people to cheer if they are (gay, trans, or whatever).
I've also been to some where they ask the 'non-male' people to come to the front and tell the straight men to stay in the back.
As someone who likes to get to shows early so I can be in the front, this definitely rubs me the wrong way.
Plus, some I just can tell they feel that they are better than others, or at least they come across that way.
The same way you would be able to tell a white guy in a mixed crowd who thinks he is better than the black people around him and it offends him somewhat to have brush shoulders with them.