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  Dave1, I am someone who is comfortable and open about my sexual orientation, fairly self assured and pretty thick skinned; however even I find it upsetting when people use terms such as poof, queer and/or much worse and more descriptive words and phrases to describe me.
  
  Why do I find it so?
  
  Because I have first hand experience of it escalating beyond these little words, to active harassment, to violent conduct.
  
  Why did this happen because I stood up for myself and refused to accept that these were just little words that were meant in jest, but were exactly what they appeared to be which was insults. The harassment then followed because I complained to their landlord and the police and it ended with a physical attack. Whilst the police wished to pursue the case the CPS and the local authority decided not to. In the end my partner and I moved because we had had enough of being let down by the very people who should have supported us and our home life was at that point intolerable.
  
  All of this happened 6 years ago
  
  And it still goes on even in our supposedly cosmopolitan major cities - so in answer to your question Dave1 yes gays and lesbians are still oppressed by other people.

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