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Sometimes I forget that I surround myself with people who are accepting of my sexuality and it's not that often that I get verbally abused for being gay, but today was on of the days that reminds me that there is still a long way to go.

The boy and I decided to walk down to the local shopping centre (it's just off a very busy road ten minutes from us) as we normally do and like most couples when we walk we hold hands, it's no big deal after all everyone else does it!

However within the first 100 metres we had had various catcalls and offensive comments called out at us from cars driving by. Eveything from Faggot, Poofter, that's disgusting so forth and so on.

The worst offenders were a groups of 20somethings in a taxi cab waiting at a set of traffic lights. As we crossed in front of them the verbal abuse started and continued as the poor taxi driver roared off.

It reminded me that we still ahev so far to go to have equality.

All I really want is to be able to do the same things as a "straight" couple without people hurling abuse at me, or making me feel very uncomfortable. Like holding hands in public without abuse, or sitting in a movie theatre holding hands, or not having parents yank their kids out of my way in case the horrible poofter looks at them.

Yeah sure I am openly gay, I don't hide my sexuality if someone asks I will readily tell them, Yes I am gay.

A couple of weeks ago we went to see the new Austen Powers movie (great!!!!) and at the end of the movie the couple in fromt of us turned round and almost jumped three rows of seats as she saw us holding hands in a movie cinema! Can you belive that for a reaction, after all she wasn't some old generation she was maybe in her thirties with her husband / boyfriend. But the sight of the boy and I holding hands was so terrifying to her that she wanted to jump away from us?

I've decided that people are truly pathetic, and with morons like Gerorge Bush and John Howard (Australian Prime Minster) in power these morons have someone in power who seems to validate their fear and hatred of gays and lesbians. Morons the lot of them!

5:40:00 PM