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@mekkaokereke @craignicol I can relate to that. I am a white cis hetero European university professor. I was once visiting a group at a university in Texas and taking a walk on campus, when a student called the cops on me because "there's a man dressed weirdly walking around". It turns out I was wearing a T-shirt with horizontal coloured stripes that were similar to the LGBT flag colours. Same place, a few days later, I was wearing pink and a girl stopped me and told me "You know, Jesus loves you even if you are like this.".

This left me with two thoughts. The first was the level of discrimination experienced by LGBT people day in day out. The second was that ultimately, I probably had no problems with the cops (i.e., I'm alive) because I'm white. These were/are chilling thoughts, and I think this is what people refer to as privilege. Scratch that, it's not chilling, it's bloody scary.