Okay so.
My high school is mostly made up of students from the same three surrounding, small neighborhoods. The one I grew up in is very homophobic but not as bad as my neighboring town. That neighborhood is notorious for hate crimes. Like, Mayor Bloomberg visited there because of it.
We’re all intense Italian and Irish Catholic guidos. It’s not even gays they attack. When a Black family moved into there a few years ago, a bunch of the natives burnt their house down. (No one was hurt, thank goodness, and yes, they did put a number of them behind bars.)
My boyfriend grew up in that neighborhood and he said it was hell. He didn’t come out until he was 20 and able to move a little while away.
Now our neighborhoods aren’t technically gang affiliated, but work like one. Our neighborhoods basically have each other’s backs. When someone has a problem with another person, it becomes both neighborhood’s business. Do you know what I mean?
Why they moved in here is beyond me. It’s gotten to the point where I go out of my way and purposely walk past their house to and from school everyday. I don’t know what to do.
We’ve only exchanged smiles and “good morning’s”. They’re in their 30’s and I’m 18. Should I make friends with them anyway? So they know they have someone here?
I can’t even stress how neurotic I’ve become over this. I’m literally scared for them. Is their anything at all I can do or maybe should do? Any advice at all?
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A Gay Couple Moved Into The Neighborhood I Grew Up In And I’m Scared For Them. Is Their Anything I Can Do?
Posted on April 27, 2011.
make friends with them, be nice to them, btu dont be too invasive yno?
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Go talk to them and tell them about the hood why not be friends with them?
Tell them about your concern.
Explain to them what you jsut said here.
they decided to move to a neighborhood like that themselves so it has nothing to do with you. you can go over there if you’re bored.
Yeah, maybe you should stop over to say hi and maybe tell them about the neighborhood and warn them. It’d be a nice gesture to let them know you support them and have their back, even though the neighbors apparently dont :-/
How would you feel if something DID happen to them and you had not said anything?
It’s definitely worth at least calling in there – preferably with someone else (BF?) and saying hi and just telling them you have been here for years and wanted to let them know what ld was.
It might be a little uncomfortable but they will really appreciate it I guarantee it – if we all showed a more of this kind of community spirit maybe the world would just that little bit easier to live in.