Comments on: Kill those damned homosexuals! http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=615 Thes - Old English for "this", neuter of thes, of West Germanic origin: Mediolanum - old name for Milan: Lif - Old English for "life", of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lijf, German Leib 'body' Fri, 16 Nov 2018 07:21:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Andy http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=615#comment-1267 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:11:50 +0000 http://www.vandainmilan.com/?p=615#comment-1267 Thanks Lola. I’ve found it interesting here, in Italy. It was a bit like stepping back in time. A, one of my friends that I mention often, seems to think that I was the first gay person that he knew! He tries hard to ‘understand’ or, rather, to be understanding.

However, his comment, when V and I split, of ‘Do you think you’ll be looking for a woman this time’, made me laugh as it is clear he doesn’t quite ‘get it’.

However, he has been very accepting and very kind and has accepted that F is with me now even if he was not brought up to understand that each of us may be very, very different.

Normally education is the key – however, there are some people who, for one reason or another, just don’t want to learn! I guess Uganda will be full of those people!

]]> By: Lola http://thesmediolanumlif.com/?p=615#comment-1266 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:48:00 +0000 http://www.vandainmilan.com/?p=615#comment-1266 I have gay friends and I’ve never had a problem with that, not even when I was too young to understand the difference between homosexual and hetorosexual. That’s because of my education I guess. My parents have always been very “fair” and when I was a kid they explained me that having different sexual orientations is fine and I shouldn’t make jokes if one of my classmate was gay (which was the case).
All this to say that the adj.ignorant that you used in the post is the right one. Lots of people ignore the issue (it’s not’ even a issue to me) because they’ve been raised as “straight” without an explanation about other legitimate orientatations. I’m glad my parents were very clear and open and I’ll do the same with my kids. I’m sorry to say, though, that my heterosexual friends are not like this. Sometimes they laugh when I’m mentioned a close friend of mine because they know he is gay and I can’t stand it. They are only ingnorant.

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