Gay trainers/trainees.

I can honestly say they are good. The best? No.
Anything you want to know you can call, email, or PM me.
I'll tell you anything.

 

Penguin do you just jump in threads whenever you feel like it? Do you ever actually read what has been said? That quote was in response to one of his. You took it out of context. Oh well I'm sure by now your off jumping in another thread you know nothing about.
Your little line at the bottom of your post is my point exactly. I don't want him to be offended because I'm offended by his lifestyle. God forbid if I didn't approve of homosexuality.

Okay back at ya. How will I live knowing I offended a gay person.

 

Pretty easy solution:

After you meet the trainer, mention something about your "girlfriend/wife" at home in conversation; My girlfriend such and such etc.

Carry some porn mags with you if nessesary.

Don't mention nothing about gay.

Tell the trainer you're a die-hard republican.

Problem solved.

 

I trained someone who was gay. He hit on me many times during the trip knowing that I was straight. Of course it nevered entered my mind to kick him out or anything....I enjoyed the converstations we had.

 

I dont see why it is a big deal. There was a trainee at the school I did my refresher at. He was very open about it at school. Which was not suprising due to the fact that it was fairly easy to see anyway. It was in his bearing, expressions and movements. He was a great guy though and I did not have any problems with him, nor did the roomates he shared a room with in training.

I dont know how he did on a truck with a trainer. I hope he did well. He had the makings of a really good driver.

A training situation can be hard if the trainer is bothered by people that do not share what is considered to be "normal" male/ female sexuality. If he is bothered by it he may see advances where none exist. Your best bet will be a female trainer or a trainer that is not close minded.
I wish you luck.

 

Double standards are so strange to me.

I'm a conservative gay woman, and the prospect of working so closely with a heterosexual male doesn't scare me. Because I'm feminine and because I don't speak much about my private or family life, I have had to say "I'm sorry, I'm gay" to some guys, when they asked me out. I figured the truth was kinder than "I have to wash my hair," or some other transparent BS. Well, sometimes they will make a good natured joke, sometimes they will make a rude comment, and sometimes their reaction is just very mature and boring. (I'm not complaining about mature and boring, btw.) When someone finds me attractive, and decides that they would like to ask me out, I am very flattered, and I try to handle the situation as tactfully as possible, because I want to minimize their sense of embarrassment. It doesn't make me any less a lesbian if I treat heterosexual men with respect and consideration.


I know that some men can be harrassing, and don't want to take no for an answer. But most can and will accept no for an answer, without giving you any difficulty. I would think that that is true of straight men and gay men as well. Why do some straight men not think so? I'm not trying to be a jerk here, I really don't understand.

Don't get me wrong, I understand why some straight people wouldn't want to have to change their clothes or shower with gay people. It's the same reason that straight women don't want to have to share a locker room with straight men. But speaking for myself personally, I could comfortably share a truck with a straight male, as long as he didn't harass me. And I mean real harassment. It wouldn't bother me at all to ask him to turn around while I changed my clothes, if I had to do it in the truck.

Be well.


--Beatrice

 

The thread starter is from Boston, I can see one possible problem:

Casual anti-homosexuality (I hate the term homophobia) is far more acceptible in most of the US than is is in the urban east coast. Where I grew up, racial, sexist and anti-queer slurs and jokes were never considered generally acceptible (accept amongst the extreme poor). This does not mean that people aren't prejudiced, just that they are more circumspect in expressing it. Even though I am white, male, and straight, I have a visceral aversion to hateful language and jokes, largely a result of my upbringing.

First when I joined the Army, and more recently when I went to trucking school in Arkansas and found myself thrown in with people from other areas of the country, I have often been distressed at the language and jokes I hear thrown around.

A couple of weeks ago I had to explain to one of my classmates why I was bothered by him throwing the word F** into every other sentance. Over the time I had known him in school he had seemed like a kind and decent guy, and when I explained to him the violence and hate associated with that word, he seemed genuine in reconsidering his use of it (at least around me)... One way or another, his pollitically incorrect mannerism did not seem to run to true hatred.

I think that most modern Americans have a genuine committment to decency, regardless of their casual prejudices. Getting past the surface appearance of anti-homosexual bias and learning to be comfortable with this decent majority of the trucking community may be the biggest challenge to a gay would-be trucker.

 

Im a lesibian trapped in a mans body, plz dont fault me, now any ladies want to train pm me