I can teach you about homo things, too ; )

Maybe they got in trouble too many times for not doing it exactly as instructed, even if the instruction is obviously bullshit in some ways?

Making constructive, non-adhominem critique, and accepting such critique. Maybe calm debate/discussion in general.

LA also just doesn’t seem like a particularly safe place in general (though IDK how much that spills out from the real ‘problem’ districts into the kinds of places that OP would be at).

Which city in which country? TBH I’d be wary about being openly GNC anywhere in the USA right now, but even there there are degrees to this.