At the soup van I used to volunteer for, I dropped it parenthetically into conversation at a point where it was relevant, and then tried to keep going with the conversation, but my supervisor ground to a halt and needed to process.
He thanked me for my honesty. And then wanted to ask me some questions, like when I first knew I was gay. And then wanted to share with me his whole process of learning to be tolerant. How he had initially thought that gay people shouldn't be allowed to adopt, but thanks to his work with the homeless, on the soup van, he has seen so much child abuse and neglect that now he thinks that gay people wouldn't be intrinsically worse parents than that.
sometimes, especially in fiction, it's coming out at a press conference or in front of an audience or something.
I am Iron Man!
For the record, Dr. G is a very good pediatrician.
I'm lucky, there's a queer general practice clinic near enough that I can go there. Rainbow flag sticker on the door, fabulous interior decor, big earnest poster saying "You don't have to tell us you're LGBT - but you can!", etc. It helps to know that that's one non-standard thing about me that they definitely get and do not need explained.
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At the soup van I used to volunteer for, I dropped it parenthetically into conversation at a point where it was relevant, and then tried to keep going with the conversation, but my supervisor ground to a halt and needed to process.
He thanked me for my honesty. And then wanted to ask me some questions, like when I first knew I was gay. And then wanted to share with me his whole process of learning to be tolerant. How he had initially thought that gay people shouldn't be allowed to adopt, but thanks to his work with the homeless, on the soup van, he has seen so much child abuse and neglect that now he thinks that gay people wouldn't be intrinsically worse parents than that.
sometimes, especially in fiction, it's coming out at a press conference or in front of an audience or something.
I am Iron Man!
For the record, Dr. G is a very good pediatrician.
I'm lucky, there's a queer general practice clinic near enough that I can go there. Rainbow flag sticker on the door, fabulous interior decor, big earnest poster saying "You don't have to tell us you're LGBT - but you can!", etc. It helps to know that that's one non-standard thing about me that they definitely get and do not need explained.