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Being able to be somewhere where you can invite your old friends down and show them YES Nashville, home of country music has GAY clubs, OR That theres skyscrapers in North Carolina.lol (Why I get more exited to see pics of Palm Trees in Nice, France than in an obvious place like Hawaii) Why a new skyscraper in Norfolk is more exiting than one in NYC. The irony!īeing able to feel like you discovered something new. Looking back on it all I think I know part of the reason. I couldn't understand why I cared about these small to mid sized cities anyway. Here in snowy Wilkes-Barre I'd listen to these gay men coning home to visit telling us about how great it is in Atlanta, South Beach. It kinda did seem like a lot of fun, it had its problems but I had to swallow my pride and admit Atlanta was cool. He couldn't understand why I would waste my time when Atlanta is so great. I did some research and argued that there were a number of gay bars listed for these "small towns" and spouted off some population stats being the geek that I am. When I would ask him about Charlotte, Nashville, Raleigh, Richmond. as not only THE hot places for gays to move to in the SE but among the only places.
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Atlanta was in the ranks of South Beach, New Orleans. I can remember being in Atlanta a decade ago, visiting a friend. Statistics arent everything and many people behave one way in the voting booth and another way in private. One needs to talk to the locals who are of a similar walk of like to get perspective. ***Here's my main point: Too many people use the red state/blue state (or county) concept to determine whether they will fit in or not, but its far more complex than that in real life. How any of this applies to the Charlotte region I'll leave up to the locals to determine since they know best. *Ive seen environments among macho straight guys where they'd be far more accepting of a guy they knew were gay but was also into sports, cars, hunting, than they would an eccentric intellectual straight guy who was into Opera and organic food. *Theres more to a person than their sexual orientation, in one town a person may be far less likely to be given a hard time for being "gay" but even more likely to be looked down on for some other reason like maybe social class. *There are many people who are "anti-gay" but due to their polite upbrings they'll live by the "I don't have to like a person in order to respect them"
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I'm openly gay and had this experience many times. *Not all religious conservatives I've met are anti-gay, and I ve also met many who either think homosexualuty is sinful or in the case of conservative Catholics, disordered, but they'll still respect the gay person and even be friends with them, treating them better than some non-religious people would (love the sinner hate the sin). I think most of those who do the harassing do it based on machismo rather than religion. Sometimes it's just gay or eccentric lifestyles fit into some cultures better than others.
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*Not all people who are homophobic are that way for religious or ideologial reasons. (Many old generalizations have thruth but also have notable exceptions and contradictions) Sometimes the places where Christianity is most prominent are the places where you run into the most trouble.Īlthough I cannot speak for Charlotte, some interesting things I've observed over the years: I just want to be a part of a community in which people respect each other for who and what they are. I am not into public displays of affection, from gay or straight people. It's strange to still have to ask questions like this in today's day and age, but unfortunately there are still lots of places where to be gay means having to afraid of the consequences. Others might have a different take on it, though. But if your perception of tolerance is like how most people act in a business environment, then that is definitely Charlotte. If your perception of tolerance is something like Amsterdam, where everything goes on in public, and no one minds. At the same time, I think it is extremely uncommon to see couples (gay or straight) being affectionate in public. Does that make sense? It would be extremely inappropriate to make racist or sexist or homophobic remarks at work, and so people act the same way out of work.
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People tend to act in a manner than would be appropriate at work in a professional business environment. Personally, I don't know one way or another, and I'm also not sure in comparison to other cities.Ĭharlotte, in general, though, has a culture that is very business-like. Since no one is answering your question, I'll give it a shot.