Do you guys honestly truly think this world is becoming more excepting?

[musicman2229]

Like the many issues of marginalized groups that have come up before our community, the cycle has been a gradual upwelling of discontent, a climax of widespread social tension, a significant shift of public opinion, and the gradual acceptance compounded by each subsequent generation until the original opinion in question is seen a ludicrous. It seems to me that the stage we are in is immediately after the significant shift of public opinion. As has been pointed out in many previous posts, things are better for us than they used to be. What will make the world the way we want it to be, fully accepting of us as people, can only be time. Probably one or two more generations and society will have re-defined the 'F' word. I'm too young to wax poetically about how bad things used to be for us. My earliest memory of gay/straight conflict was 80% of my high school senior class staging a walkout because the school wouldn't let us elect a very popular lesbian couple prom queen and queen. But I can observe the data, and if history is any indicator, it's going to be a few generations before we are fully accepted.