• OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I learned more about LGBT+ from a bible thumping homophobe I met at school than from anyone else.

    I didn’t know the rainbow thing until he saw a blanket in my house with a rainbow pattern. Just about caused mental break. He was convinced we were a secret big gay household or something.

    He went on to become one the types of people in OP. The ones who stand on the street screaming into a megaphone about God and the gays and stuff. He went on trips to America to attend some sort of giant Christian evangelical things.

    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      I was working with an old timer South African. He showed us the new strap for his guitar. It was a rainbow. We looked surprised. He told us it was for his homeland - a brave new rainbow nation. We told him how it would probably be interpreted where he was. He looked sad and went back to the old strap.