Comments on: “Today, I was fired for being a faggot…” http://pink-pages.co.in/the-gay-agenda/%e2%80%9ctoday-i-was-fired-for-being-a-faggot%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d/ India's National Gay & Lesbian magazine! Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:19:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: VbSin http://pink-pages.co.in/the-gay-agenda/%e2%80%9ctoday-i-was-fired-for-being-a-faggot%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-21877 VbSin Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:59:03 +0000 http://pink-pages.co.in/new/?p=2251#comment-21877 It is sad to learn that you lost your job. I had come across your YouTube channel a couple of years ago. Unfortunately being gay and out in the workplace sucks across the world. I recently lost my job after coming out to my manager in the UK. She belongs to a very conservative African background with strong religious faith. After coming out our cordial relationship ended and she began picking on every little issue. Finally it was not my sexuality, but what I wrote on facebook about her that made me resign. I worked for quite a visible public sector organisation and I have learnt the hard way - to maintain a low profile in the social media sphere. As a teacher, or any other public sector role, we just can't speak our mind on the internet without anonymity. I know you are passionate for gay rights, as am I, but if you are holding or ever again going to hold a similar job... please nothing on the internet. If you working for a rights organisations then by all means ;) It is sad to learn that you lost your job. I had come across your YouTube channel a couple of years ago.

Unfortunately being gay and out in the workplace sucks across the world. I recently lost my job after coming out to my manager in the UK. She belongs to a very conservative African background with strong religious faith. After coming out our cordial relationship ended and she began picking on every little issue. Finally it was not my sexuality, but what I wrote on facebook about her that made me resign. I worked for quite a visible public sector organisation and I have learnt the hard way – to maintain a low profile in the social media sphere.

As a teacher, or any other public sector role, we just can’t speak our mind on the internet without anonymity. I know you are passionate for gay rights, as am I, but if you are holding or ever again going to hold a similar job… please nothing on the internet. If you working for a rights organisations then by all means ;)

]]> By: Diepiriye Kuku http://pink-pages.co.in/the-gay-agenda/%e2%80%9ctoday-i-was-fired-for-being-a-faggot%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-13171 Diepiriye Kuku Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:17:04 +0000 http://pink-pages.co.in/new/?p=2251#comment-13171 I appreciate you for reaching out. Thanks! I appreciate you for reaching out. Thanks!

]]> By: andavane http://pink-pages.co.in/the-gay-agenda/%e2%80%9ctoday-i-was-fired-for-being-a-faggot%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-2986 andavane Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:05:25 +0000 http://pink-pages.co.in/new/?p=2251#comment-2986 Diepiriye, I reach out to you in friendship, love & sympathy. And I tell you for sure that you're made of strong stuff, and that though tender you're tough. The way I see it, you're the victim of a Double Whammy ~ being negro and being gay. And I say that because I too am the victim of a Double Whammy ~ being disabled, and being gay. Somehow, this is something which seems completely outside the understanding of the average human being: he simply cannot incorporate this into his mental furniture. Neither, sad to say, can many gays themselves :-( OK, I will tell you something else: In the DeepSouth of India there is an unbelievable amount of prejudice against the black colour (ironic that the word 'krishna' means 'black' isn't it? ;) ) & once I heard my little god-daughter hurl an abusive colorphobic insult against her own uncle. I faced the wee 3-year-old eye-on-eye, and... Let's say that within the space of ten minutes, she viewed him in a very different light. :-) Diepiriye, I reach out to you in friendship, love & sympathy.
And I tell you for sure that you're made of strong stuff, and that though tender you're tough.
The way I see it, you're the victim of a Double Whammy ~ being negro and being gay.
And I say that because I too am the victim of a Double Whammy ~ being disabled, and being gay.
Somehow, this is something which seems completely outside the understanding of the average human being: he simply cannot incorporate this into his mental furniture. Neither, sad to say, can many gays themselves :-(
OK, I will tell you something else: In the DeepSouth of India there is an unbelievable amount of prejudice against the black colour (ironic that the word 'krishna' means 'black' isn't it? ;) ) & once I heard my little god-daughter hurl an abusive colorphobic insult against her own uncle. I faced the wee 3-year-old eye-on-eye, and… Let's say that within the space of ten minutes, she viewed him in a very different light. :-)

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