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The Problem with Straight People(What We Say Behind Your Back)

22 The Problem with Straight People (What We Say Behind Your Back) Max after the art opening: Sometimes I hate straight people so much I want to kill them. That’s why I don’t write. I can’t say that in a book and that’s all I want to say. Brandon on the phone: We should start straight bashing. Find an asshole straight guy and beat him with a bat, fuck him in the ass. Gang up on straight couples kissing on the train. Tell them to take their disgusting lifestyle somewhere else. I know it’s not right, but I’m tired of making everyone comfortable. Do you know how many times I’ve been called faggot in New York? Celeste yesterday: Fuck straight women who don’t think what we do is fuck, and fuck straight women who don’t ask about my lover! Sara’s e-mail: I just want to hold Michele’s hand without straight men yelling out the car window. Can one thing in the world have nothing to do with them? I’d like to rip their balls off! 23 Michele’s e-mail: I want to scream at my co-workers: “Yes, we’re lesbians! No, we don’t want to have a baby!” Tim at G Lounge: I hate straight girls in gay bars, thinking they can be as rude as they want because nobody here wants to sleep with them, like our world’s not real to them, like we’re not real! Steven at lunch: Straight people will only go so far, and then they’ll turn on you. There’s always some line, some point where you’re on your own. You’ll be too gay, too prissy, too loud, too something. Me right now: I hate straight students who look disgusted once they figure out I’m gay. I hate straight men who imitate my voice when they think I can’t hear them. I hate straight men who make their wrists limp when they think I can’t see them. I hate straight men who joke about bending over for soap in the shower. I hate straight men who have sex with men. I hate straight women who say, “It’s such a waste that you’re gay.” I hate straight people who say, “I don’t understand why you’re so angry.” ...