For the record, when I make a donation to Pflag or another organization, I'll use only my own name.... I have no reason to be talking about other people or telling their names....
It happened that when I lived at her basement apartment, my landlady seemed to be a closeted homosexual.... She never wanted to call herself gay but she showed by her behaviour that she was.... For the purpose of my legal matters--like with the former Ontario Human Rights Commission--I had to explain the situation to them and they accepted my belief that she was gay.... In 1998, the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy was being promoted in the news. I've done research on it since then and I learned that if a person didn't want to be recognized as gay, they couldn't show any gay behaviour.... You can't have it both ways, that is. It'd be duplicitous and dishonest to do so, in my opinion....
When I lived in her town, it wasn't for more than six months and I didn't talk with others about my landlady's name, except in legal documents after she initiated proceedings.... In this blog, I've never revealed her name, I'm quite sure!? But for the purpose of business in my Waterlily blogs, I want to accept it as fact that my landlady--anonymously--was gay.
[At the original hearing with my landlady at the former Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal, I incorrectly called my landlady gay--in the way that I said it--and incorrectly described sexual harassment, at the time.... But as I've explained in this blog, I learned to understand the laws better and to use the right language.... If I've left anything out, people can bring it to my attention...? (I think I'm okay?)]
{If anyone still has a question, I have a typed transcript of part of our ORHT hearing where the adjudicator acknowledged that my landlady had a romantic and/or sexual intention towards me by asking me to go to her apartment in the late evening to do some work which I'd agreed to do.... (I agreed to do the work but I was concerned about her late evening request...and there was more to the story.... She made a point of saying her daughter would be away for the night at her father's place.... There was no reason that I needed to be alone with my landlady in her apartment, in the late evening or nighttime hours, as far as I was concerned....)}
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