My Sadly Uninformed and Homophobic Roommate

[Here2Learn22]

So, imagine a typical college dorm room scene. I'm sitting on a lazy boy playing video games while I should be studying...:) My roommate is watching youtube videos. He finds a video called "no homo." Essentially it is a homophobic song using the music from a piece of rap. I found extremely offensive.

I said, "I don't want to hear this."
He said, "Wait, you're offended by this?"
Me: Yes
Him: But you aren't gay!
Me: What?!?! How can you think that means anything? I'm offended by the N work and I'm not black!
Him: That's completely different.
Me: How?! How! Tell me how it's different. I'm all ears...
Him: Mumble, mumble,avoids answer

It's strange how many people my age fail to answer these questions.

[tdogg]

As this person is your roommate, and you obviously have dialogue, it's a great opportunity to teach by example. Perhaps you can have a conversation regarding why your roommate feels such language is ok with him/her. You can then go from there to more positive conversation about GLBT. A start anyways. :)

[Daniel]

Milk. The movie. Take your roomie. Pay close attention to the scene where Milk asks a guy on his staff to call his parents to tell them that he is gay. It's pretty powerful.

If we don't come out, nothing changes. Why? Because it's a theoretical abstract otherwise.

Gandhi said "be the change you seek'. Not talk about the change you seek.