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Discrimination?
So frustrating, but since I more or less came out I feel like I lose opportunities that I would otherwise have been a shoe in for. I was working retail and got passed up for several promotions that I was clearly the most qualified candidate for after my employers found out about my sexuality. I've also received nothing but form rejections on my query for an teen LGBT novel, no partials requested. And there are a lot of other little things that are building up.
I also can't say with certainty that any of it has to do with me being open. But it feels like it does.
It's frustrating, because it's not something that you can prove on an individual basis. But when you compare between how you were treated and how many opportunities you had before you came out, and how things are afterwards... it just feels like discrimination.
Please share your experiences. I'd like to hear what you have gone &/or are still going through, and how you overcame it?
I could use the cheer up.
So frustrating, but since I more or less came out I feel like I lose opportunities that I would otherwise have been a shoe in for. I was working retail and got passed up for several promotions that I was clearly the most qualified candidate for after my employers found out about my sexuality. I've also received nothing but form rejections on my query for an teen LGBT novel, no partials requested. And there are a lot of other little things that are building up.
I also can't say with certainty that any of it has to do with me being open. But it feels like it does.
It's frustrating, because it's not something that you can prove on an individual basis. But when you compare between how you were treated and how many opportunities you had before you came out, and how things are afterwards... it just feels like discrimination.
Please share your experiences. I'd like to hear what you have gone &/or are still going through, and how you overcame it?
I could use the cheer up.