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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
If you are outside Manhatten or DC you might be surprised how much fear, or hate, or whatever it is, there is.
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But you also might be surprised at the tolerance out there. You know, I live in Texas, a state not necessarily known for it's forward thinking. But I also have an openly gay brother in Texas, who has never been shunned by colleagues or had problems with work or finding housing or even that much animosity. Granted, he lives and works in the part of town that doesn't care about such things, but he works in a field where he has to deal with people from all over the state in all sorts of socioeconomic classes. Not one problem. He's not flamingly gay, but I'm pretty sure most people's gaydar (or at least suspicions of metrosexuality) would go off when meeting him. No one stopped talking to him when he came out, and he spends a lot of time in very small towns in central Texas. He's an ace in the duck blind, can talk pick-up trucks with everyone else on the street, and he's probably spent more time rounding up and working cattle than most straight Texans. He's one of those normal people who happens to be gay, and the more exposure people have to people like him, the less likely they're going to care if he ends up marrying the love of his life whenever he happens to find one.
