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Originally Posted by JenaS62
I graduated in 1980 in southern New Jersey and for all of my years in public and private school, I never head anyone teased or bullied for being gay. There were what were probably lesbians (I don't know for sure because no one talked about it) on my field hockey team and they were really good and no one cared who they were attracted to. All anyone cared is if they were good. I had a gay guy in my art class. He was considered eccentric because he wore eye liner. He ate lunch with the popular kids. No one cared.
Anecdotal as well, but I'm pretty sure most people do not care until it it rammed down their throats on a daily basis.
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Agreed.
And the type of in your face flamboyancy now gets taken to extreme, almost caricaturistic levels.
It seems fashionable now to be a walking stereotype.
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