Though your sentiment's fine, that's kinda the over dramatic end of the spectrum. You ain't usually asked at job interviews about your sexual orientation (well, it's illegal in fact). Even as a promotion or whatever, it's still really a moot point about being gay. There's a load of other stuff which might negatively sway the people of power, like the fact you're a woman or wear glasses or have unusually large hands.
And homophobic attacks are really rather rare (certainly less common than racially motivated stuff), simply because it isn't all that obvious if a person is gay, especially to a drunken monkey skinhead in the dark. You're just as likely to get mobbed if you're wearing a suit, etc.
What I would say is the real annoying side is the very fact so many people consider it an issue of any kind, where anybody of sane mind can quite clearly see it isn't. Where you've got people who have never met you spitting hate, pinning discrimination upon a giant piece of fiction, the fact you're not legally allowed to give blood just cos you're a gay boy. And actually, the fact all that nonsense and casual prejudice that's everywhere can be such a bloody difficulty in your life with the people you care for; those loving parents and friends that you mentioned can be a far, far, far more pressing concern and issue than any great threat from religious fundamentalists, the political right, or whatever.
I just find it so depressing when you have these people ranting away on telly, talking about this theoretical thing. All that rage, and you so know the image in their heads is of these sexual promiscuous, shrieking queens, with flamboyant clothes and an effeminate air, because that’s easier, that’s a far clearer target. Where as, when I hear those kinds of opinions all I think about is kids who are 14, 15 who feel so alone, with these middle-aged adults and all their forthright, emotive moral indignation screaming pervert, or disgusting, or whatever. I mean, it’s fine for adult gays, they can just shrug that kind of thing off, know those people are idiots and get on with their lives in relative harmony (at least, in the West). It’s all those young kids who really feel that kind of thing, and it’s just an utterly ugly, ugly thing.
Oh, and:
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If he were gay, don't you think he'd just admit it? I mean, why would he act that way and say that he's hetero if he wasn't? What would be the point?
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Joking, tool.
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) that an annoying personality is unlikely to get a proper professional position in the workplace. Well, tar and feather me, what a revelation. That really has nothing to do with being gay.
