This really made me so mad when I saw it on the news. In third and fourth grade health classes they would show the kids videos about different types of families... single parents, grandparents, adoption, gay families.... They showed clicks of the videos and they were NOT offensive at all. Very positive and realistic. However, just over FIFTY PERCENT on the parents complained about the videos and now they are not showing them anymore. They said they were "innapriopriatte". When will people LEARN no one is trying to "turn them gay".. they need to get over their homophobic, and hateful, judgemental attitudes. It makes me rather sick. The videos I thought were tasteful and help to teach children tolerance and acceptance. But I guess that is a BAD THING.
this is why I think discrimination is still very real, so many people say they are not homophobic, but when faced with gay issues and life style they are shit scared S
It makes me rather sick and sad. And these same people will talk about all the rights (in the US) that black people and women gained.. sure... they (we) did gain but that doesnt mean discrimination and hate is over. It's just as real- just different. Blah.
over here one of the channels got the highest amount of compliants because of a gay kiss on a soap in day time hours, if it had been a straight kiss no one would have bothered S
Did you hear of the Miss USA thing here? How the girl lost her crown or something from a picture? The picture was her and another girl TOTALLY DRESSED just KISSING in a bar. Would THAT have happened if it was a guy and girl? Dont think so.
Hmm I read about a gay singer somewhere, could have been Elton John but I'm not sure, mentioned his boyfriend in front of a family with a young boy backstage and the mother told him not to mention him in front of her son... and I have a friend who says being anti-gay is not discrimination, because it's 'what she believes'. What a crock of shit. Me, I got told about sex from a very young age, maybe even pre-junior school, but I never got told about gay people. As no-one in my faamily is at all homophobic I think this was probably because I was taught about sex as being a way to make babies, so gay people didn't really fit into it. Consequently I learnt about 'lezzies' from a friend at school when I was about ten. The way she explained it was something to laugh at and something 'gross', I only realised that it wasn't when I went home and asked my mum about it. Luckily I was still at the stage where I believed everything my mum said must be right, so I came out OK. It could so easily have gone the other way though, with me hating gay people and consequently hating myself... Anyway, what I am trying to say in a very long-winded way is that it is best to teach children this kind of thing young, BEFORE they get a chance to become prejudiced and think it's disgusting because that's what their parents and/or friends have told them, because that's the only way we are ever going to get the next generation completely free of hate.
