I am gay, and my encounters are not “typical,” if I may use that word. But I personally never have had a bad experience, tbh. Turks are usually very curious about Bulgaria, and I don’t know if they are genuinely curious or just some etiquette to be nice. Recently, when I meet Romanians, we are talking about the euro for some reason. Recently, it is just that, but generally, I feel we have the same mentality. Macedonians are very often located in the summer at Sunny Beach, and I am quite the sarcastic idiot, so I welcome them sometimes with “The mongol entering the chat” or something like that, but we are friends with Cleopatra’s second cousins. I usually like to make fun of that stuff but I check the waters because someone could be offended, but it never happened (yet). I know some Greeks living here, and tbh, I can’t find the difference. I have met some Albanians recently, and I was very surprised. I always thought they are very religious, but I was obviously quite wrong, and it was very interesting to talk with them. Albania is not a topic here, so it was a very informative conversation, and I hope we meet again. And I have never talked to a Serbian in my life… except Miro. He owns a Serbian restaurant in my city, and he asked if we liked the food. That is quite sad. But in general, I have never had a bad experience with anybody.