Gay people are nice?

I agree with you, with one minor addition...

The gays here at EC (actually, all the LGBT here) are pretty much all nice.

(*hug*)

 

There can be gay people who are not nice. I've read a book with a character who's gay and is as horrible as s***. It's the Black Rabbit Summer

 

It`s becoming almost impossible to generalize what LGBT people are, which is in my opinion, a good thing!

 

Obviously there are bad apples in every barrel. But in my experience I really do think out gay people (both men and women) are nicer than average. Just my experience obviously but I've had a good 20 years in the community and I stand by it.

 

I'd agree. Like any other group, there's a lot of variety. One thing I have noted, sometimes, is a certain degree of cattiness/clique-ishness, but then again, this happens in many other groups as well.

 

I had same thoughts, and during couple of threads on EC and hearing people opinions I guess there ARE not-as-nice gay people out there, but in EC everyone are really nice, we're like big family! and a good one!

 

My French class had two gay guys (three if you count the teacher). One was the sweetest nicest guy I've ever known, the other... if he disagreed with you he'd let you know, even if you were speaking to somebody in a private conversation on the other side of the room... and then he accused me of eavesdropping! Just because you don't remember telling me something doesn't mean it didn't happen...

 

I wouldn't say they're more "nice". But gay people tend to be more open minded in general. But open mindedness and niceness are two different things

 

I'd say generally as a whole we're nicer, but we also have some of the most vicious people in the community. :lol:

 

My one friend says he loves gay people and that they're the sweetest people out there. Erm, I don't know how I feel about that. There are just as many asshole gay folk as there are straight people. Don't know how I feel about the generalization thing.

 

That would be a stereotype. Sympathy and kindness may exist within the community, but because we are all similar and share many of the same experiences, not because we are just nicer. Gay people may be more open minded in some aspects, but we are all just people. And some people are nicer than others.

 

Exactly.
Stereotypes can be positive, too, such as the stereotype that all Chinese people are good at math, or the stereotype that black people are good at basketball.
The "all gays are nice" thing is one of those stereotypes.

I don't think liking people of the same sex and being friendly have any correlation.

 

Well, I don't know about you guys, but I for one am a fucking bastard.

But yeah, I agree with the Gent above me.

 

If anything, I feel we're more accepting of diversity (aka open-minded like awesomeness said). Otherwise, we're no different.

 

I know plenty of gay and lesbian people who are assholes, and plenty of straight people who are assholes. So....yeah, from everything I've seen around me in my life, I can't quite bring myself to consider sexual orientation having any true bearing on one's personality/behavior.

 

Well this can't be right. I am a terribly misanthropic person.

 

I don't know if this is off topic or not, but how about gay people who rape and murder another person? Isn't that how straight/homophobes see gay people?

 

Hahahaha...

This.

 

The underpinning idea that going through hardships makes you nicer may be flawed. I see plenty of people who are less nice because of the hardships they go through.