Someone came up to me and my friends the other day and started saying a lot of homophobic slurs and other very rude and harsh things. The thing is, my friends ( trans,bi,pan ) and I ( Pan ) were literally just sitting in a cafe and then we see this guy walk up to us and just start verbally harassing us with slurs and threats against the LGBTQ+ community. And when I started trying to CALMLY speak to the guy, he started SHUSHING ME and then it got me riled up. My friends tried to pull me back telling me that it's not worth it, so while my friends were PHYSICALLY having to pull me back from the argument, a barista came up to the man with the whole SECURITY and escorted him off the premises. My point is that people shouldn't even have to BE in these situations if others just ACCEPTED US and treated us as living, breathing, people. Being gay or anything else IS NOT A SIN OR A CRIME! I shouldn't have to apologize for being me, nor should other people. I AM A PROUD PANSEXUAL AND YOU CAN NOT TAKE THAT FROM ME !!!