Its also a generational thing and parents realising its also their kids and their friends who can be openly homosexual.
Humans are always afraid of the unknown, and everyone being more open helps.
Nice to see the overall trajectory, but still just a bit sad to consider that the US is barely in a better place today than Sweden was 20 years ago.
And even then, I’m not entirely convinced the number of bigots hasn’t started rising back up in the US given that the data stops at 2022 and the anti-LGBT rhetoric has been dramatically increasing lately.
I think it’s just the anti-LGBT rhetoric is loud (quite literately) but they’re not necessarily they’re large.
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The amount of strings the GOP has to pull just to get any election in their favor should tell ya’ everything.
Not just in the US. And it is at least partly because of a radical overreach in policy demands over the last decade by the “T” in LGBT. It has generated an inevitable backlash that is now hurting the other letters in the soup, of which I am one.
That is going to be a very unpopular opinion here, and I won’t be drawn into a sterile debate over it. But I’m certain it’s a fair assessment.
That’s a pretty ‘fuck you, I got mine’ attitude
L M A O “policy demands”
You mean the part where we’re allowed to pee safely? Or where we aren’t fired/laid off from a job just for requesting people use the right pronouns? Ooh, or how about accessible healthcare? No? It’s the sportsball thing again right?
You remind me of my mother-in-law. She came out as lesbian about a decade ago and I can’t even imagine the struggles she’s been through in her life. She married a man and raised two amazing daughters while grappling with her own sexual orientation, identity, and society’s expectations of her.
Today, she complains about trans activists and Pride participants “drawing too much attention and making the rest of us look bad when I just want to feel normal.” She’s concerned about the backlash, just like you. But the thing is, her second marriage wouldn’t have been possible if it weren’t for loud, visible, robust activism.
At one point in time, the policy demands of outspoken gay activists were probably viewed by more conservative members of the gay community as “overreaching.” But their efforts uplifted the gay community and, by extension, the entire human race.
The fight for trans and genderqueer rights is the fight for human rights. This is my position.
Now, if there are specific policy demands that you’d like to point out as truly unreasonable and harmful to the LGBT+ community, or if you feel like I’ve made a fallacious argument, I invite you to let me know and tell me why. Until then, I take issue with the assertion that our trans brothers and sisters are making things worse for the rest of us, when they just want to be safe and comfortable to be open about their identity.
It’s not possible to only uplift one marginalized group without uplifting them all. There should be no push for equity that excludes someone else just because their need is greater.
I had gay neighbors one time and they were exactly like straight neighbors
I’m currently a gay neighbor and my neighbor is also the gay neighbor and it’s very different from most neighbors I’ve had: We give each other homemade baked goods regularly
We give each other
Go on… 👀
homemade baked goods regularly
Oh.
Damn…My gay neighbors never gave us baked goods…
Goddammit, I need a gay neighbor.
This is undoubtably due to the nefarious scheming of Big Gay.
It’s called the Gay Agenda™.
2 adults in a consensual relationship. Nothing to see here, move along.
Where are the arabs?
Why only this small subset of countries?
Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Uganda?
Edit: just opened the world map. All those countries are near 100% anti-gay neighbors. Lol.
So the real headline is “Global west is okay with homosexuality. Everyone else still hates us”.
Good. People who love each other, should be able to spend time together.
