Since I'm a homeschooled senior, the school part doesn't apply to me.
I work for a
very straight company (Home Depot), and the only gay people you usually see working in their stores are lesbians. Out of my store, I'm the only openly gay/bisexual male - ever. And there are no lesbians. It was kind of awkward at first, but my mother and stepfather work there, so I already knew many of the people. I started off being really quiet and conservative, as I usually develop a different personality for work. But within a couple of weeks, I started to act more like myself. They've always known that I'm openly gay, and I could tell that a couple of the more religious, older people did not like it at first.
After a couple of months there, I began to notice that literally everybody in the store seemed to like me and treated me so nice. I wondered why this was, because my personality isn't that much different from any other 18 year old's. I asked my mom what she thought, and she said that, without a doubt, it's because I'm gay and how I act. Since there aren't more than a handful of gay people in my area, and none of them work there, they haven't been exposed to many of them. And so when I act more flamboyant and "gay", they eat that **** up. When I dyed my hair Rihanna red a few months ago, everybody went CRAZY over it - in a good way. So ever since then, I've been playing it up.
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It's so cute though, because even the extremely conservative, religious older men that work and shop there are really nice to me. But I don't know, I'm kind of classy about it because I don't go around saying, "OH MY GOD GUESS WHO I WANT TO ****?FGLJDF". I don't mix my sex life with work.