That the lady in the Bank can't catch the Gay ?

[MrsGaryLightbody]

Well that was a fun trip to the Bank.
Lady in front of me was obviously complaining but I only caught second half when I had started to feel itchy that I'd miss my bus .
Apparently the bank teller had personally changed her phone app to the rainbow flag and she didn't like it as she didn't want to catch The Gay .. I listened and admired the teller explain patiently that she hadn't done that personally but it was to celebrate pride. Customer then says well I'm not gay so take it off NOW ... pushing her mobile through the gap ... I so want to know how that ended but they opened another booth.. aibu to call bank and ask lol 😂

Apologies, not Pride - at a Stonewall event held in London today.

Has anyone ever heard anyone in real life use the expression "catch the gay"?

Pretty much, yes.

One close family member said she'd prefer I wasn't around her newborn in case I "influenced the baby."

A more distant family member grabbed his children and pulled them in like some sort of hero father saving them from the aliens in a horror movie whenever my wife and I were together near them.

But who am I to call homophobia; after all, both put nice rainbows on their facebook profiles and I'm sure are wearing their rainbow lanyards at work this week.

Buzz yep, a gay man wearing a t shirt saying bum boy gets served, a lesbian wearing a lesbian: woman who loves other woman t shirt doesn’t. Pride don’t give a shit about that lesbian.

Tbh I’m fed up of all the rainbows. I’m fed up of being forced into wearing rainbow lanyards at work. I don’t give a shit about people’s sexuality it’s nothing to me, if I am going to wear a virtue signalling lanyard and have a cause bearing screen saver I want something that is important to me like mental health awareness, I’d rather be a mate to my gay friends than a straight Allie.

As homophobia has decreased- and social attitudes on this have shifted dramatically in the couple of decades - so stonewall et al need to find reasons to justify their existence. Hence we have the alphabet soup, whining about transphobia when women have the temerity to say their single sex spaces should be exactly that, and rainbows on everything. I just don’t care who you sleep with, it’s not what interests me about a person. I don’t get why it’s a matter for pride.

AppleTartlet. You are the epitome of straight privilege. Why do I say that. The quote below gives you away.

There's really no need to go out and march for homosexual pride, any more than I'd go out and march for heterosexual pride.

Have you been beaten up because you are hero. Doubt it. Have you been verbally abused for it. No. Have you had people pull their kids away from you are think they can "cure" you.

Yes, being gay is far more mainstream than it was. But there's a long way to go before it's accepted by all.

Yes, being gay is far more mainstream than it was. But there's a long way to go before it's accepted by all

Absolutely