Right before the last staff meeting of the year, the guy sitting next to me stood up and announced to everyone that he was gay.
He said he knew that the one colleague he had told in confidence, had gone and told half the colleagues in the department and that they had all been laughing at him behind his back. He said that the workplace gossip had not apologised, even after he had asked for an apology.
Once he had finished his speech, the room went awkwardly silent for a long time and nobody said anything. A few people expressed support but nobody apologised, still.
Then throughout the meeting, some of the colleagues started acting exaggeratedly 'camp' with each other. It was really bizarre.
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Right before the last staff meeting of the year, the guy sitting next to me stood up and announced to everyone that he was gay.
He said he knew that the one colleague he had told in confidence, had gone and told half the colleagues in the department and that they had all been laughing at him behind his back. He said that the workplace gossip had not apologised, even after he had asked for an apology.
Once he had finished his speech, the room went awkwardly silent for a long time and nobody said anything. A few people expressed support but nobody apologised, still.
Then throughout the meeting, some of the colleagues started acting exaggeratedly 'camp' with each other. It was really bizarre.
This was a meeting between university lecturers.