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It was because I called out a fellow queer on campus who was harassing me by name and the one who made the server didn't like it. I had to leave school anyway so it was perfect timing.
Honestly the Pride Center at my university made things so clique-y it felt like I didn't really belong there, and there were queers who never went there that I became best friends with. One of these people is currently my partner and she described her one visit there as, "it seems like they're recovering from something". Yes, unfortunately they are, from quite a few things. I do hope it gets better. My experience there was unfortunately not very pleasant, as hard as it tried to be.
I learned a lot of hard lessons from college, but one of them is that just because you're queer doesn't mean you're immune to being a bad person. None of us are immune to all the phobias out there, and none of us are immune to expressing phobic stuff towards others or even ourselves. We need to have our minds and ears open at all times so we can be respectful to the community, show solidarity to our fellow queers, and hold accountable those who don't uphold those values. That's what I tried to do, but I instead got kicked out.
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