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98% of the people that live in Wilmington are never going to know you're gay unless you tell them, dress in a manner that flaunts your homosexuality or carry around a sign that says "I'm gay". Of the remaining 2%, 90% could care less and the other 10% won't cause you any physical or economic harm so why worry about it. Worry about the important stuff like if you like the city, can you afford to live here and can you find a job. However if you are looking for a city that has a celebratory attitude towards homosexuality like San Francisco then you probably won't be happy here. Otherwise I would rank Wilmington as highly tolerant for NC.
98% of the people that live in Wilmington are never going to know you're gay unless you tell them, dress in a manner that flaunts your homosexuality or carry around a sign that says "I'm gay". Of the remaining 2%, 90% could care less and the other 10% won't cause you any physical or economic harm so why worry about it. Worry about the important stuff like if you like the city, can you afford to live here and can you find a job. However if you are looking for a city that has a celebratory attitude towards homosexuality like San Francisco then you probably won't be happy here. Otherwise I would rank Wilmington as highly tolerant for NC.
I think this is a fallacy. Sexual orientation is actually part of one's identity; one does not have to flaunt it for someone to figure it out..e.g. if someone is 40 years old, and they don't date, or were never married, even the most backward people can figure it out eventually. Gay people are like straight people; when we head back to work after the week end, and someone asks us what we did, we like to be able to tell them, and not make up lies.
You just missed Wilmington Pride this past weekend. You might look into their site and the resources they link to. In general it is not something to worry about. Even if people "figure out" you are gay, southern culture is usually preetty live-and-let-live unless one is obnoxious about [whatever]. I am gay and have lived my whole life in NC (not Wilmington, but been there a lot and know a lot of people from there), and other than at the political level, where our conservative legislature panders to quote-unquote "family" issues, the general way people treat you in NC, moreso in Wilmington, is not colored by whether or not you're gay. There's a sizeable Community down there--even a (small, so far) gay film festival just got started up this year.
That made me chuckle since I'm 43 and never married.
so's my husbands best friend and hes as straight as they come.
and... george clooney comes to mind (who is MUCH better looking than hub's friend LOL)
some men just dont want to marry (the horror!) LOL
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