How do you deal with homophobic people?

I always like knowing how others deal with them. I live in a tourist town and had a lot of homophobic people in the town. Both me and my gf try to ignore it as best as possible. Or in a few cases we make comments back.

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Piper · 61-69, F

That does depend a lot, on just what they do or say. I can't [b]not[/b] say anything, often. I was 'dating' a man once, and we were at a little bar/restaurant a lot of us locals liked. I saw a male friend I hadn't seen in a while, and excused myself to go greet and talk with him. Saying why and everything..."there's my old friend'_____', I'm going to go see how he's doing".

When I got back to the table, that man very loudly berated me for going over and talking to that "fag". That was the end of my interest in a relationship with that man. I was glad to find out early on, that he was bigoted in a way I can't abide.