Category: What Would You Do?

In this week’s “What Would You Do” series, I thought I’d pose some very timely questions as the holidays descend upon us. Let me set the scenes… It’s holiday time and you have family that you’re not very close to. In fact, you not only don’t spend time with them, you don’t really get along…

In my whole extended family, I am the only one to graduate college, the only one to have lived abroad, and the only one to have a corporate job. (So far as I know, I’m also the only one who is gay, though there is an aunt I’m not too sure about …) Anyway, family…

Tell me, “What would you do?” Everyone likes to get a little something extra for little or no extra charge, since these opportunities don’t come around very often, we seem to create these opportunities on our own. Just because you can ‘get a little something extra’ to save money doesn’t mean it’s a good idea…

I’m curious how you handle the awkward situation of the pick-up-the-tab-dance. Picture the scene: you’ve gone out for a nice dinner with friends. Along comes the check and suddenly the tug of war beings: “I’ll get it.” “No, I’ll get it.” “You shouldn’t.” “What do I owe you?” “Nothing…” “OK, thanks…I’ll get it next time.”…

I’m really curious to hear your take on this. After I learned about Cracker Barrel (in 1991) and Olive Garden (in 1998) firing gay employees purely because they were gay”and winning the associated court battles because of lack of legal protections in those states”I resolved to boycott them. And I have for years, not one…

This is a new weekly series that we will be having, a question will be posed and we would like to hear your response to it. Not all questions are GLBT related, but that’s ok as our lives go beyond the glbt community as well. While I was growing up and our family got a…