A Facebook post from someone looking for a new flat with her girlfriend took us aback this week. It’s no secret how hard it is to find a place as a couple, and with a pet, but we didn’t know some people are so terrified of the gays they advertise for ‘straight only’ flatmates! A very quick trawl through Trade Me's flatmates wanted listings came up with these wonderful examples: Check out this room in the Auckland suburb of Pt England: "Clean-living" straight people only! Terrible spelling is fine though. Glen Eden: Smoking yes! Gays and pork, no! Confusion in Mt Albert: Two Indian girls, one bed, no gay guys. This ad from Palmerston North may just be the creepiest thing we've seen on the internet this week. Boys your beards are the least of our worries: It must be so demeaning to be trawling through ads and be constantly slapped with a reminder of how some people in this country have failed to evolve. And yet what we can learn, is that homophobes have terrible taste in décor! The reality is, thankfully for us, people can live with who they want – and really, this kind of crap is helpful in regards to who to avoid, as we wouldn’t want to live with any of these cave-people! Rest assured there are plenty of people who actually go out of their way to say they are gay-friendly, which is nice – but you can always use the classifieds on GayNZ.com which we can certify as being homophobe free x Jacqui Stanford - 2nd February 2014