I have a terrible track record when it comes to identifying gay people (or any of LGBTQIA for that matter). For the last few years, it had never occurred to me that this was not important enough for me to care about.<\/p>\n
The turning point came when, while volunteering at Sydney Fringe<\/a> 2011, I was in the midst of ‘alternative’ centric shows. Some of these were very popular, like Confessions of Grindr Addict<\/a> . I also sold tickets at a drag show at the Imperial Hotel, and posted a Foursquare check-in that clearly demonstrated my ignorance about the place.<\/p>\n Don’t get me wrong, gay\/lesbian people can and have been some of the nicest people I’ve met.<\/p>\n On two occasions, I have embarrassed myself in conversations by not identifying two people I know as gay. I kept asking myself, “When did this become common knowledge?”<\/p>\n With these two somewhat mortifying experiences behind me now, I’m now more aware of behaviours that may identify someone as gay. I still think it’s rude to ask them, unless I know they have come out.<\/p>\n BUT, the most important thing to come out of this is: Whom do I know IS gay (or any of LGBTQIA for that matter)?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have a terrible track record when it comes to identifying gay people (or any of LGBTQIA for that matter). For the last few years, it had never occurred to me that this was not important enough for me to care about. The turning point came when, while volunteering at Sydney Fringe 2011, I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/set3.bh0.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}