This question comes from Greg in New York. He writes,

QUESTION: Yo! Welcome back, Dawg! I have a question for you. So I work in Marketing for a very large corporation, and I’ve been working on a project with this dude for a couple of months now. He’s really smart, never late on his assignments, and we work well together – but yesterday I found out that he’s gay.  He mentioned to me that he and his partner are excited about the new gay marriage bill passing here and they’re planning to get married in the fall. Additionally, he mentioned how they want to adopt children from Africa. I’m totally disgusted by this and refuse to work with him again. Ya feel me, Dawg? How should I tell my boss that I’m done working with a fucking queer? Holla!

TREY SAY: First off – without even looking at your corny ass, I can tell that you’re a Tapout T-shirt wearing, beef jerky eating, mouth breathing, douchebag white boy. Let me give you some tips, Snowflake – if you’re going to use the urban vernacular around a black guy, make sure you use something a little less dated than “Dawg,” will you please? Do I look like Randy Jackson to you? Hell, “raise the roof” just emailed me and said that you need more relevant smack. I think I speak for all black people when I say that we really don’t like this. Stay in your lane and leave the coolness to me, you fucking nerd.

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let me attempt to clarify something: You work with a smart and efficient colleague who hits all of his deliverables on time, but you’re refusing to work with him because you found out that he’s gay? I’m struggling to understand this. Are you afraid he may kidnap you and make you watch Bravo TV all day long? Or are you worried that he’ll ask you to play a game of “Hide the Salami” between conference calls? Oh wait – I get it, you’re probably scared that if you work with him for too long you’ll catch “the gay,” and become *gasp* one of them, right? You’re an idiot.

On a side note – is it just me, or have any of you noticed that gays are discriminated against more than any group in America today? Think about it – what other group is constantly bullied in schools, afraid to be themselves due to potential societal repercussions, and in many cases – can’t get married? As a black man, I despise discrimination of any kind – so my heart goes out to homosexuals. The world has a crapload of problems to deal with – but many people spend time, energy, and money (in some instances, taxpayer’s money) protesting against individuals who are happy and in love.  It’s just beyond my level of understanding.

Maybe I’m just naïve, but I believe that the quality of one’s work has zero direct (or indirect) correlation to who he/she is banging. So why do you care? I don’t know this guy, but I bet he doesn’t give a damn about who you’re sleeping with. Additionally, I can’t speak for anyone else – but I’m only interested in the sexual habits of one human being, and that’s my wife. How about you get your bigoted head out of your ass and start adding value to your company by continuing to work with this man? If you decide that it’s beneath you to work with a “fucking queer,” you should approach your boss about it. Just tell him exactly what you told me. Since you’re stupid enough to come at me with such an asinine question, I’m pretty sure you’re stupid enough to do this too. If so, one of two things will happen:

Scenario #1: Your boss is a reasonable, sane, and intelligent man who fires you on the spot for being a complete jackass.

Scenario #2: Your boss is just as bigoted as you are, and decides to grant your wish to stop working with your colleague. Since you’re a fool, you’ll probably contact me and say “I told you so!” In that case, I’ll forward your question to the HR department of your corporation (I looked you up on Facebook, and your dumb ass listed your employer for everyone to see). And yep, you guessed it – you’ll probably be fired on the spot then too.

Here’s the sad thing about this: The only reason why the man told you he was gay was because he probably trusted and liked you to enough to share such a deep personal secret – and would never think that you’d betray him like this. It’s truly disturbing that people like you are walking around spreading your hate and assorted assclownery to others. Discrimination and bigotry of any kind is not cool, “Ya feel me?”

So, it looks like you really only have three options:

  • Be professional and continue to work with this man
  • Find yourself a new job
  • Kill yourself

I’m pretty sure you know what I’d recommend. Let me know how that works out for you, Dawg.