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“Fags Like You”
August 20, 2008 - Wednesday
Posted by Lisa
I’ve been the help line coordinator for The AFA for three years now, people call me for support and information when they need help. I’m happy to be the voice that they hear when they need to reach out and connect with a person who understands. I think I bring compassion to my job; I hope so.
For what it’s worth, I’m also a heterosexual woman, I have a wonderful husband and a beautiful daughter and a nutty puppy named Cooper. I guess you would say we’re a typical family.
But the man on the phone today, the anonymous angry voice who yelled at me for ten seconds and then hung up without any interest in my response, didn’t know any of that. This man told me that he holds a blue cross blue shield insurance policy and he is thrilled with Honda’s discriminatory stand against LGBT patients. He said to me, “We have to do everything we can to stop FAGS LIKE YOU from having families.”
He has a right to voice his opinion, but I wish he had done it with the benefit of his full name, without screaming, and without assumptions. It never occurred to him, I guess, that straight people might feel differently than he does. He made me afraid to do my job today. That kind of fanaticism is scary about any issue. It’s the kind of fanaticism that makes people fly planes into buildings. I wish it didn’t have an effect on me, but it did.
Best always,
Lisa Van Ness
Development Associate
The AFA
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