Poll: How does your area treat homosexuality?

[dex-dex]

among people my age (early twenties) no one really cares about homosexuals. you can be gay just don't try and convince straight people they are not.
I do know a few people who are in their early twenties who think they should not marry or whatever which is a bit of a lost battle because Ontario is fine with same sex marriage.
with my parent's age group, I think they are a bit on edge about it. none of my parent's friends are gay( if they are then I have never met them)my mum is fine with them she may not think it is the right thing to do but she will not hold it against them. my dad is uptight about tattooed and pierced people. I don't want to know how he would be around a gay man or lady.

 

[GartarkMusik]

Well, my home is a sleepy little town and there's no open hostility towards homosexuals, but they are ostracized in some form or another. I personally don't mind or care, but it doesn't help that the homosexuals we do have are very overt and flamboyant about it, so it's a bit of a lose-lose right there.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

I live in a low income black neighborhood in Lousiana, so its generally not well regarded.

 

[icame]

It is not accepted in my area. The one kid that came out of the closet got beaten repeatedly for a while. I am in a backwater , very christian town (Honestly, there is like 6 christian/catholic/insertoneofthousandsofspinoffsofchristianitythatallbelieveessentiallythesamedamnthing schools and 1 non-christian.) so people tend to be pretty ignorant to anything like that around here.

Offtopic: My (and most of my friends too) opinion on homosexuals; I don't give a shit, do what you want.

 

[Laser Priest]

I'm from an area filled with xenophobes who say that anyone unlike them in anyway deserves to die.

Could be worse, could be xenomorphs *nudge nudge*

I would undoubtedly prefer it.

 

[icame]

I'm from an area filled with xenophobes who say that anyone unlike them in anyway deserves to die.

Could be worse, could be xenomorphs *nudge nudge*

I would undoubtedly prefer it.

Agreed. Just get to the local engineering shop and you'll be good.

 

[WOPR]

I'm from an area filled with xenophobes who say that anyone unlike them in anyway deserves to die.

Could be worse, could be xenomorphs *nudge nudge*

I would undoubtedly prefer it.

Yeah, I mean, free hugs are way better then master race obsession bigots

 

[DirgeNovak]

Montréal in general is very accepting. I don't live very far from the gay village, so my immediate area doesn't have a problem with it at all.

 

[babinro]

There are at least 5 gay men and 1 lesbian at my workplace that I know of...and I'm not terribly social. I've never heard anyone react poorly or talk badly about homosexuality.

That being said, there are a few people I know who are homophobic...and lots of people who refer to things they don't like as 'gay'. So in my little circle all is as well as could be expected while not being perfect.

 

[Mr. Google]

most people around me despise it. Which really bothers me because they just seem so ignorant for it. What ever though i guess you can't fix ignorance.

 

[lokun489]

We're one of those places where people are in the news because someone who was gay was beaten to death and tied to a fence.

 

[TheLaofKazi]

For any sexuality other then straight, it's pretty much accepted, but still misunderstood and not talked about too openly. When I came out of the closet about being bisexual, I got a lot of support from people, but there were some that didn't really 'get it'. But that isn't really an issue, because they were open-minded and tolerant enough to learn about it.

 

[Unhappy Crow]

It's hard to tell since in my neighborhood, I have yet to see if anyone around here is homosexual. Even at school, I know they're gays there, and they have to treat them with respect because it's college, and what college would say no to people with different sexual orientation.

 

[Kaarnage]

Hail from Blackpool!

The gay capital of North England!

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

Depends. It isn't really discussed a whole lot. I have a gay cousin[footnote]I actually have no idea how we're related, but she shows up to family events, so why not?[/footnote] who has never been treated any differently by anyone in my family when she shows up with her girlfriend to get-togethers. No one really cares, and it's looked at pretty much the same way as if she were to show up with a guy.

Also, I'm pretty sure that most of my church suspects I'm gay (I'm not, I just don't care enough to dispel the rumors), and there's never been any sort of issue there, either.

However, outside of those two settings, things can get a little dicey.

 

[Silas13013]

Intense and extreme indifference. They are gay, whoop-de-fuckin-doo. I'm an old crotchety man who plays video games and hands out full sized candy bars at Halloween and as far as I can tell, I am treated the same as the gay bloke who lives down the street and has an extremely impressive flower garden. Which, in my book, is how it should be. No one treats him special because of his sexuality and most of the kids in the neighborhood have never been told that gay is any more unusual than straight.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I live in the buckle of the bible belt, or as I call it, Jesusland. Take a guess...

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Very, very disliked.