Do you know any homophobic people?

Yeah I do. Most wouldn't shout about it, but would pull faces or make a comment if they saw a gay couple.

Yep. Used to work with a fella who was jailed for beating up a gay male couple on a bus in East London, one needed stitches after the attack. I also used to work for a security company and a number of doormen refused to work at a gay bar. Now, there are some issues there that would put some people off but not wanting to work with "filthy animals" isn't a valid reason in my book. I also ended up in a scrap during a college event when I was just 18 over some tosser in my course bullying a gay lad who was on the tour with us.

I've met countless homophobes to be honest, a lot of the Muslims I work with would be very homophobic.

FTA69 wrote: »

Yep. Used to work with a fella who was jailed for beating up a gay male couple on a bus in East London, one needed stitches after the attack. I also used to work for a security company and a number of doormen refused to work at a gay bar. Now, there are some issues there that would put some people off but not wanting to work with "filthy animals" isn't a valid reason in my book. I also ended up in a scrap during a college event when I was just 18 over some tosser in my course bullying a gay lad who was on the tour with us.

I've met countless homophobes to be honest, a lot of the Muslims I work with would be very homophobic.

Animals, i was thinking homophobes as in people i've heard saying it's just not right bla bla bla, definatley don't know anyone who would take it to those extremes.

Probably one fella, he gave a gay guy a beating in the pub one night.

Not sure if that was the reason though, they were arguing for a few minutes beforehand.

steveone wrote: »

Yep

You're fine so. You're not homophobic, just a miserable sh1te

1210m5g wrote: »

Seeing how this topic popped up i thought i'd share this story, my best friend got sacked from her job yesterday for being bisexual, she had been working as a PA for the last few weeks and was getting on great until yesterday when the woman she was working for started asking her about her partner. As soon as her employer realised she was in a relationship with a woman she said she would have to let her go as "it would be like having a man woking as my PA"

http://www.equality.ie/Files/Guide-to-the-Employment-Equality-Acts-1998-2008.pdf

steveone wrote: »

I have no time for the ' look we're gay ' type, i don't care that they're gay- its the attention seeking that annoys me. Does that make me a homophobe or a sociopath?

On a serious note, there are very few of those though. More often us just an extroverted personality which fits the usual gay stereotypes.

Unfortunately as these guys don't really fit the usual character type for young men these age, people just assume they are putting it on.

And unfortunately people tend to dislike people or things which stand out as different from their expected so they ascribe some ill motive like attention seeking where there is none. They are just being themselves, and perhaps not giving a **** if people would prefer they didn't.

I wouldn't call that homophobia on the part of the people judging them - more a case of lacking empathy or understanding of different personalities.