Quote: SmokeyTA "of course you don't. You have never known anything but that privilege. You have never been a Gay man subjected to homophobic abuse, you have never been a gay child working things out whilst their peers use Gay to describe anything and everything a bit rubbish, you have never sat there whilst other casually used those words as if they were no big deal to dismiss you and probably the people you love. Yet you feel able to dismiss concerns as no big deal, reactions as OTT, to question whether children asked how they felt actually felt that way or if they were just trying to make a splash.
That is your privilege.'"
This, exactly.
Privilege isn't having loads of cool stuff, it's not having lots of ty stuff.
You never had to worry whether introducing a partner to your parents would get you kicked out of the family home.
You never had to worry whether bringing said partner to the work christmas party would stop you getting promoted.
You never had to grow up in a world where your making love to someone was seen as grotesque.
These are all things that LGBTQ people have had to go through, and still do on a daily basis. The fact that you haven't had them is your privelige. Your sexuality is invisible to you, because everyone assumes it & treats it as normal.
Your privelige isn't having a really cool world. Your privelige is being able not to care.