homosexualty, a teenagers view

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i meant in the general public. but to be fair perhaps the high emphasis on equality here is that we ourselves are a minority (although not treated as badly-we are still looked down upon by the uneducated).

plus once there is equality all the annoying reminders will go away (except in extreme bullying/hate crime instances).

Quite ironic, really. In Year 8 (Age 12-13), most of my classes had at least one person in it that would act "gay" just to show-off and receive attention. That was partially one of the things that got me taken out of P.E - what one person thought would be "showing off". Nothing rude or explicit, ofcourse. Now, two years later, it seems to have died down slightly.

It is really annoying how people make gay jokes, use "gay" as an insult and stuff like that, but I've come out to some people who do that, and while they were shocked at first, they did accept it. Some of them teased me a bit, but it didn't get nasty. Interestingly, even though I'm a girl, it always seems to be boys who find it harder to accept. I was always scared the girls would assume I fancied them or something, but it hasn't happened; in general, girls have been very supportive. The people who know will still do the previously mentioned seemingly homophobic things, but if I tell them I'm uncomfortable with it, they try to respect that. I actually take it as a sign that they're not too uncomfortable with me; you know, they're not changing their behaviour and being very careful just because they're talking to a lesbian.

The teenagers I know are pretty tolerant of homosexuality and bisexuality and all that kind of thing. Although they do still call each other 'gay' as an insult.

Not transexuals though. You say that some celebrity had a sex change to them and they go 'Ughh'.

I think homosexuals are treated awfully by some but things will get better. It's just like with blacks, they were discriminated against majorly but things got better. Sure there are still racists and always will be, just like there will always be homophobes but things WILL get better. That is something I believe and have to hope, I have to believe this world still has some light.

I'm completely straight and I'm in complete support of gay rights! I have many friends who are gay too! I've noticed that bigger areas in bigger cities and metro areas are MUCH more accepting of the gay community. It's more so the small towns that discriminate against them as many of them may have never even personally met a person who is gay. I live in the biggest city in my state now but, where my parents live, a lot of the kids thought I was gay just because I have a slight lisp and do theater acting. And, many of them are very discriminating to the gay community. One person told me that he was proud to be a homophobic! Talk about ignorance!

If anything, teenagers are the demographic most likely to lash out against gay people, because they're not yet as mature as adults are in understanding love.

Personally, the idea creeps me out a little, but they deserve rights and stuff. I really don't care what they do with their homosexuality.

How is this a fact?

Anyway personally I think it's a person's sexuality is their own business. I've seen a few posts mention that the word "gay" is used as an insult. It's pretty much the same where I live.

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That is what the word 'gay' orginaly meant. Look it up!

Homosexuality isn't new thing, it been around forever, just like heterosexuality. But it isn't that we are taught wrong the problem is that we are taught wrong, rather that biased people are doing the teaching. The problem is that if they had a teacher with a more positive outlook on LGBT issues that would be biased teaching too.

That's pretty rare.

I think there's a long way to go. Here in UK, there's a general consensous that being homophobic is wrong. That's a great thing. However, many people hide behind this, claiming that they are not homophobic, while really they are very homophobic. "I'm not homophobic, but I would hate my son to be gay." "I don't hate gays, but I don't want them doing anything in my B&B." Etc etc. As for teenagers, well, they are certainly not more accepting of homosexuality. Some, a very few, may not yet have been conditioned into thinking that gay is wrong.

Homosexuality is not taken very well here either. I remember being told by someone who could otherwise be described as nice and caring that it was disgusting, and condemned these two people for it. I don't understand where this stems from if the person isn't religious.

Well.. here in Mexico, being gay is not taken very well, in fact, a lot of people see it as something wrong (even though the government recently made gay marriage legal).
but i truly believe that the homophobia is slowly decreasing among the young generations because, for example, almost everyone my grandma's age is homophobic (specially men), among people my mom's age it is more or less a 60%, among my older cousin's (age 25) acquaintances its a little less than 40% and among my friends there are just a few who say that they are really really against gay people.
[[i'm talking about people in the capital city, because obviously, in the rural areas homophobia is still "the right thing to do"]]
but well, most still say

i also think that girls are more accepting than boys (even if you are a gay girl) because boys find it harder to accept and they tend to tease a lot more [based on my experience]