A question for my fellow young guys

Golfbuddy

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I hope you've all seen what happened in Moscow today (Sunday).

In the US, I think homophobia is less than it was a generation ago, but I've seen little improvement in the last few years. Nasty, vile people like Rosie ODonnell, pedophile priests and so many gay teachers doing students hasn't helped the public image at all. And where I live, a certain religious cult teaches that homosexuality is a choice pure and simple, and there is no biological or genetic influence. One chooses to be gay. Unfortunately, most kids raised in this "religion" are taught to never question the church authorities and are the most homophobic kids I know -- and there are so many gay members who are deeply closeted. How bad are they? At a local high school, a number of GLT students wanted to form a club. They got a brave straight teacher to sponsor them. They started having meetings. Within a week, outraged parents (all members of aforementioned cult) demanded it be stopped. The school wouldn't, or couldn't. So, parents had their kids get into the club, vote themselves into office, and promptly disbanded the organization. The Gestapo lives!
 

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I think it has decreased but it's definitely still far too evident in society. Most people in my school love using "gay" as an adjective to describe everything, something I find extremely annoying and disrespectful. And by far the people who seem most homophobic are the uber-jocks. They're too cowardice to make any kind of attack directly at the people, though.

We also have a GSA in my high school but it's limited to only a small bunch of members.