My homophobic father demands a male nurse and gets a flamboyant male nurse for his surgery instead.

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This took place in the 70s, in a much different time. My father was an ex-military macho six-foot-four

police officer in California when I was a kid. He was also a sexist homophob who would yell at

the TV about gender-bender movies and gays taking over the world. I cannot stress to you enough how

much he hated gay people. He had to have emergency surgery on his gallbladder. At this time,

this was a much more involved process than it is today. The rest of this story was told to me by my

mom because I had to wait outside with my grandma when this happened. They had to put a catheter in

right before the process and my father was uncomfortable having a female nurse do it. So he

requested a male nurse. A few moments later, the most flamboyant gay nurse, or at least he was

putting on a show to make my father uncomfortable, burst into the room and in a loud voice announces,

say, you want a male nurse, do you? Well, I can fix you up. My mom said the look on my father's

face was pure horror, but he was in utter shock and allowed the nurse to put in the tube. He never

spoke of it, but my mom would laugh about it even years later. On a side note, my oldest daughter

came out as gay, but as you can imagine, didn't want to tell her grandpa for years. It finally came

to the point where she was comfortable and he rejected her. And I basically told him he was out

of my life. He came by in tears and apologized to her for all the negative things he'd said over

the years. He completely changed who he was after and is now a part of my life again. He continues

to make an effort to be a better person even to this day. It is sad that it took losing his

family to change him, but change he did and for the better. Sometimes jerks can learn.

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