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Wtf? Landlords are kicking out queer people for being queer? I can’t imagine any possible and reasonable explanation for them to do that. In any case, nice pro

• Kye 4y ago
  Queerphobia It's not a good reason but it's common enough and the targets aren't typically in a strong position to fight it. Some homeless shelters will even kick queer people out if they get in. Look up the controversy around the Salvation Army.
  • Mo3 4y ago
    Not questioning this happening, at all, but it's so unbelievably idiotic to me. It's not like queer people pay less rent or are by default bad tenants.
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    • themacguffinman 4y ago
      It only seems idiotic because you're not really seeing it as a deeply moral issue from their point of view. I don't agree, but to them it's similar to allowing a sex offender or a pedophile as a tenant (and conflating LGBT people with pedophiles is a time-honored tradition). Even if there's zero chance that they'll do anything to anyone, it still invokes a moral revulsion. Landlords are emotional humans like everyone else, they aren't motivated solely by rent payments.
• vikingerik 4y ago
  Not necessarily commercial landlords - more like intolerant parents (particularly a step-parent), or grandparents or an aunt/uncle or other relatives that a youth might be living with.
• listenallyall 4y ago
  For the entirety of Three's Company, Jack Tripper was a straight man pretending to be gay just to appease the landlord. Kind of amusing that a landlord in the 1970's had no issue with a gay man, but a straight unmarried man with two female roommates was scandalous.
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