Continuing from the posts below.... At the ORHT hearing, I was mostly able to say what I wanted to.... At the beginning, I didn't say what I really wanted and spoke thoughtlessly.... I called my landlady a lesbian.
However, I wasn't fully knowledgeable about the laws on sexual harassment and could only say what I knew.... As I've said, I'd previously had sexual harassment from a male landlord; and I got some counselling for it. In the counselling, I learned to get in touch with my "gut feelings" and I had a gut feeling the landlady was harassing me out of my apartment.... But I've since learned that you can't prosecute anyone based on gut feelings.... You need to know the law.... [And I did have evidence available about my landlady, but I didn't know how to put it all together, at the time.]
Also, if there was any reason why I would've given my landlady a legitimate reason to evict me, that would've been relevant as well.... Did I give her too much push-back? Did I make her feel uncomfortable for being gay? We might not know the answers to these questions...?
The adjudicator had concluded I was uncomfortable with my landlady's sexual orientation but I don't know if he had a good reason to believe that, considering his error in law...? Regardless, I'd like to be accountable for my part in the problems.... As I've also said, I'd like to disqualify myself at the beginning of my case.... I'm sorry that I didn't know how to do better and this matter has dragged on.... The story wasn't told directly in the news but it seems many people heard things by word of mouth; and I've had to explain things often for their benefit.... I've also learned to understand things better myself....
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