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I was about 17 and was surprised people can be like that.
I was raised in Eastern Europe when i moved to USA. i found out.
I also think that on USA television, there is a lot of LGBT people. and Media is pushing it on purpose to brainwash people. LGBT people have higher rate of homelessness and poverty.
the government wants those people to be powerless and weak!.
Russia has banned gay discussions for 100 years in public.
China has banned same sex relationships on TV.
I think I was around 12 or 13 when it became a major political debate issue and I found out.
First off it is a choice just as any other choice that someone makes. You are not born gay. It is strictly environmental programming that brought someone to make that choice.
No, not even for a second. Recall to me the time you made a choice to be straight. If it were a choice, I would not have endured the ridicule and shame throughout middle and high school that sent me home in tears. I would snap my fingers for a magic fix if it were so easy. You are extremely arrogant and uneducated on the topic to suggest that so boldly.
I am much happier now, but the misconception you spread is far too common. And not even remotely true.
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I grew up Catholic and quite sheltered from the outside world. I knew what homosexuality was from reading the Bible. I didn't realized it actually existed until in my 20's that some people are gay from watching TV.
And highly ineffective propaganda if it's capturing just 8% of the population.
The more one reads through threads on this forum the more one can understand how people like Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Ben Carson were/are considered legitimate candidates for President of this country. Talk about erosion of society...scary stuff.
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I grew up Catholic and quite sheltered from the outside world. I knew what homosexuality was from reading the Bible. I didn't realized it actually existed until in my 20's that some people are gay from watching TV.
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Some people are gay from watching TV? Wow!
No, I was watching a TV show or something and on the show people were talking about the gay population. It may of been the news. I don't remember. It was probably around 16yrs. ago.
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And highly ineffective propaganda if it's capturing just 8% off the population.
The more one reads through threads on this forum the more one can understand how people like Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Ben Carson were/are considered legitimate candidates for President of this country. Talk about erosion of society...scary stuff.
My next door neighbors while growing up were (male) gay partners, nice, but very private. I knew they were "different" just thought it was strange two guys lived together.
Where I grew up, small town in the 1980s and 1990s, my friend's neighbors were two older women...we just always assumed as kids that they were friends, like the Golden Girls. No, they were actually two retired Navy nurses who had been in a relationship for decades and lived out their days together quietly. When I got older, and worked at the local newspaper, I typeset one of their obituaries when she passed away. Being in a small community, and part of two marginalized groups, gay and elderly, must have been stifling at times.
I first heard of Gay people when my Mom's cousin committed suicide in 1962. I was 9. She didn't use that word though, she called him a sissy. One day just after Stonewall, I told her I thought I was gay. She said "NO you're not, and don't ever say that again." At least I knew where she stood, (right on my foot!) So I stayed in the closet until she died when I was 26. My dad never mentioned a word about it.
I first heard of Gay people when my Mom's cousin committed suicide in 1962. I was 9. She didn't use that word though, she called him a sissy. One day just after Stonewall, I told her I thought I was gay. She said "NO you're not, and don't ever say that again." At least I knew where she stood, (right on my foot!) So I stayed in the closet until she died when I was 26. My dad never mentioned a word about it.
Sounds a bit like with me. I too was 9 when I first heard about gay people but in my case down the street from us lived two guys. Whether they were gay or not that I don't know but I do remember the day in August 1977 when they came home from work only to find the body of their beloved dog in their front road ( he was stabbed to death ) and hearing my then neighbor saying if they weren't "disgusting sissies then the dog would had lived". I don't think the police ever did find out who had killed their dog but they did move out of town not long afterward.
Gay propaganda in media ??? That debate has been going on forever. I can remember back in the 70s hearing from preachers that Laverne & Shirley and Lenny & Squiggy were gay only because on TV they were seen living together and yes they had said the same thing about Felix & Oscar on The Odd Couple too ( guess they never saw the movie ). If that didn't sound silly there was that Elton John tune "Daniel". I can still remember when our local AM radio station had banned that tune from their station back in the mid 70s. Why ?? Because some doofus called them up and told them the song was about a man who was having a sexual relationship with his own brother named Daniel. Talk about taking the lyrics out of context !! The ban didn't last though and years later I had a chat with the owner of that station and he told me it never happened but I and many others do remember it. I am not surprised.
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Talk about taking the lyrics out of context !! The ban didn't last though and years later I had a chat with the owner of that station and he told me it never happened but I and many others do remember it. I am not surprised.
