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So I went to the Mardi Gras on Saturday night, right, and the next day at work it turned out that of the four of us in my team who turned up that day three of us had been to the Mardi Gras. So we were chatting about our impressions of it and an older woman who works at the same time entered the conversation. Her reaction was short and to the point: "I don't believe in that.". Fair enough for her, you might say. But then what is she going to do in future if one of her three kids turns out to be gay? Is she not going to believe in it then, too? Around this time last year I had a conversation with my gay friend Hein's ex (boyfriend at the time) about how hard it is being gay, to know that for no reason you have control over most of society will look down on you; to be afraid to come out to your own family because there's a significant chance that they won't be able to accept it.

Anyway, this is a long way of me getting to the point of this post: Does anyone know where I can get a badge or something for support of homosexuality? This is one of the few fights I'm more than willing to have, and it has nothing to do with Hein. A part of me just screams in frustration that there are people who are persecuted because they act and love differently to the majority. Life's hard enough already without inventing reasons to go after other people.