Britain:
"Jobcentre bosses are investigating claims that staff taunted a couple with homophobic abuse during weeks of discrimination - calling them 'gay boys'.
Steve Mellor, 23, and Roy Pearson, 28, say they were victimised for being homosexual whenever they went to claim their benefits.
Mr Mellor, who had to start claiming benefits because of a long-term illness made worse by stress, wrote to the centre last week. He said: 'When we went in on Wednesday to find out about Christmas payments, we got no help whatsoever, so we started walking away.
The Department for Work and Pensions is looking into claims that Jobcentre staff taunted them
'Comments then came from staff such as "those two gay boys always come in for information" while they pointed and laughed at us.'
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5 comments:
This is nothing new. Gays are always complaining, which is one of the ways they keep the attention focused on their wants. The overwhelming majority of those complaints are based on "a feeling" of being discriminated against. You see, for gays, facts don't count as much as "feelings". (they didn't actually make fun of me, but "i felt" they might)
Let's all hope for great advances in AIDS. Not the cure, the disease.
So it's the laughing that's offensive? What if you laugh without saying anything. Is that still offensive? And what about the tens-of-millions of people who are offended by the behavior of gays. Who do they complain to?
I seem to recall that the homosexual community are the ones who embraced the term "Gay" thereby eliminating its usefullness as a term denoting someone who is happy and carefree. Why are they offended to be called "Gay"?
Where’s all that "Gay Pride" I keep hearing so much about?
Besides Gay used to mean happy, it was the gay community that co-opted the term. If they are so "proud to be gay" than what is the problem?
Nothing but the usual bitching and complaining from the perpetually offended, victim class!
As I understand it, "gay" was not exactly chosen by homosexuals for themselves. It was originally applied to female prostitutes about 100 or so years ago because their attire and manner was characteristically "gay". The term was then also applied to the effeminate members of the homosexual underworld who were often prostitutes as well (+ theater world). As homosexuals became more "liberated" they adopted the term to diffuse its negative connotations, as they have with "queer", etc.
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