Her partner posted on her blog the letter to Starbucks corporate the woman penned. In it, she describes visiting a Starbucks and overhearing several employees and a manager discussing with a gay male employee how his lifestyle was negatively affecting the other people in the store.
The witness wrote:
“She told him that they were not interested in his politics or beliefs and his thoughts were down right offensive to his co-workers. They did not want to hear about his personal life. ...Jeffrey pointed out that they ALL talked about their personal lives (during the course of the conversation I learned that the manager had a daughter that went to tennis camp and another one of the women had a birthday coming up...) She went on, an on and on talking about leadership building workshops where she learned to "Keep it to herself"”
After the worker left to cry in the bathroom, the woman wrote that the conversation got even more vicious:
The woman says that when the employee returned the manager asked him for his keys and he left the store.“"I'm done. I'm done. Nobody wants to hear it anymore. I don't care who he is dating. I don't want to hear about it."
"He should not get upset at the things people say to him. He should be used to it. It's not like he turned gay yesterday."
"I used to listen to it, now I'm just sick of hearing about it."
"Nobody does, but it's over now. You won't have to hear about it anymore."”
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