Quote Originally Posted by Veranolth View Post
Kinda narrow-minded for some people here to think it's just a bunch of virtue signaling or that it's mostly gay people bringing the fact that they're gay all the time, and it's narrow-minded people that make it so FCs feel the need to advertise as LGBTQ+ friendly because, in our case with my FC personally, we try to avoid any drama. We want our small community to be a safe space and there's nothing wrong with wanting that. If there's an issue in the FC we discuss it before it blows up just so we don't have to deal with drama. There's people from all walks of life. I myself am trans and having to come out as trans in previous FCs/guilds sucks because you don't really know if people are accepting of that or not.
I refuse to disclose my preferences without being asked, but understand that I'm definitely not straight. I have FC hopped for a long time, and I have seldom had the issues that folks are talking about. All FCs have been very friendly to me, and most knew of my leanings. Under no circumstances did I bring attention to what I am (I refuse to be defined by my sexuality), and I was mostly accepted by the majority of FCs I had joined. And the honest truth is that across the board, nobody has to accept me, they just have to tolerate me, and if they don't like me for my sexuality or the way I play, that's their right. But through my rather conservative measures of keeping my orientation close to myself, I was treated very well by people you wouldn't expect, and the folks that treated me like garbage are people you wouldn't expect.

I don't know if i'm just lucky, or if I'm doing something right, but I have never had these problems.