A canvasser knocked on the door today (I live in an apartment inside a secure building, you need a key to get in), scaring my dogs and me as you don't expect anyone to actually come to your door here.
I answer the door, I open the door only barely a fraction of a crack really. I see a middle-aged white male and I hear him say he's collecting signatures.
He said "We want to recall the education minister for allowing pornographic images in schools" and as someone who perpetually watches the #news like a hawk, and a member of the #LGBTQ community, I knew exactly what he was talking about. Essentially people like this are concerned about books that reference #SOGI -- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity -- in the school.
I was in shock, just disbelief. You see this shit on the internet but you never expect these assholes to show up at your door.
While he was talking, I was reading through the crack in the door (both of my dogs stuck their noses out to investigate, neither were impressed), the pamphlet he was holding, which read: "Will we let SOGI ruin our kids lives?"
I read it out loud slowly, I guess he couldn't hear me (too busy spouting his own propaganda to listen), so I repeated it again, "Will we let SOGI ruin our kids lives?" to which I responded I was fucking non-binary, I was LGBTQ, and to get away from my home.
I slammed the door in his face, and he told me to fuck off through the door.
Honestly, I'm just vibrating, and if I wasn't in my pajamas I would have gone out there with my phone, taken his picture, and said this is a secure building and you have no right to be here I'm calling the cops (I wouldn't, but I would have threatened him to make him feel uncomfortable, like he made me feel in my own home)
A few minutes later I got brave, put on coat over pajamas and went out looking for this dude to try to escort him out of the building because fuck, I don't want anyone else to have to deal with this. I checked 1st and 2nd floor, nowhere to be seen, like he disappeared into the mist, which is extra creepy because I would have rather known where he was than think he could be anywhere. Maybe he went up to the third floor but I wasn't gonna push my luck. I hoped he just fled out the door and left.
I have no idea what this person's real intentions were, or what he might be capable of particularly if he is confronted with beliefs that are not his own from a member of the group he's campaigning against. Because these people who have absorbed so much anti-LGBTQ propaganda can be unpredictable and dangerous.
This is a massive invasion of privacy and a huge security issue for LGBTQ individuals. I'm also a bit worried that this dude knows I am LGBTQ and knows where I live.
