Is being Gay and open more dangerous now?

[princealbertofb]

For me..being gay is a complete non issue and always has been. I had a five minute window from the moment it occurred to me I was gay and telling my family...I was done with it. I never come out to anyone else except for a few women who would not leave me alone...eeek! I know it is a big thing for a lot of people but it would be an unnatural thing for me to "come out" to anyone...I just introduce them to my boyfriend and casually mention how much I like this or that guy and let them figure it out.

I don't care or even want to know if they have an issue...and I don't care if they like it or not.
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Ideally, that's what it should be like, but so much of being able to do this depends on the social background you grew up in, your own personality and readiness to believe (or not believe) bullshit, the amount of pressure exerted by family surrounding and school surroundings, religious surroundings and beliefs, etc... Great if people know and can 'not come out' at the age of 5 because everyone, including oneself, is so aware of it being the case and it even being possible. I think back to why my partner didn't know he was gay until he was well into his forties... the Mormon church did not believe homosexuality existed as an orientation (and even though they'd come up against same sex attractions, they'd just call it a perversion to quash, so...).
What the world really needs in this matter is education, education of our youth, education of our leaders and elite, not ramming it down anyone's throat, as we are so often accused of, but the recognition of the many facets of human sexuality and psyche.