Ignorant stupid black homophobe?
First year at Uni, on a Social Sciences degree.

I'd got friendly with a group who included a lovely chap from a small village in Nigeria. He was in his 30's but very naive due to his upbringing, and this was the first time he'd been outside of his own country.

In one seminar, I can't remeber what it was about, the tutor got to talking about homosexuality.

"I don't understand this idea of homosexuality", he said.

"Well, it's when two men... er... shall we move on?", replied the somewhat befuddled tutor.

"yes, but I don't understand"

"It's when men or women are involved sexually with the same sex. Can we move on, I can't really..."

"But why?", he asked. "Why would a man want to 'be' with another man?", he pleaded, with what seemed to be the genuine concern of someone who really didn't understand.

"I'm afraid. I can't talk about this anymore. And if this conversation continues I'll have to ask you to leave the class and report you for homophobic comments".

The poor bloke looked shocked as hell. My group, including a gay man and a lesbian, calmed him down and said we'd chat to him after the class.

I found this utterly ridiculous, that my Uni, one of the most (if not the most) left wing in the country popint blank refused to explain homosexuality to a man who lived his life in a tiny Nigeran village, and the tutor was so so fearful of being strung up for discussing it, that she threatened to have this poor bloke thrown out, for asking, what to him, seemed a perfectly logical question.
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 9:58, Reply)