Poll: How does your area treat homosexuality?

[triggrhappy94]

I'd say they are well accept, for the most part, living an hour north of San Fransicodoes that to a population.
But seriously, I know there are intolerant people out there, there's just not a lot here. Also not a lot of gays here, unless they're old. The vineyard are like a magnet to old people.

My high-school actually has a big anti-bullying of gay students campaign, I pass by at least one poster that talks about how gay students have killed themselves on my way to everyone of my classes (very cheery hallway decorations), despite there being a small number of openly gay people here.

EDIT:
I'm not gay, but reading the other posts makes me happy that I live in California.

 

[spartan773]

i would say so but i'm in utah, a world of religious douches.

 

[Trivun]

I'm in a fairly large British city with a distinct 'gay area' (it's Leeds, so basically the part of the city centre just south of the River Aire, around the Clarence Dock area and at the bottom of Briggate). My university has a sizeable gay population too, with a thriving LGBT Society, and in the past few years while I've been at this university our student executive (students elected to run the student union) have had about half their members be either gay or bisexual. I work in a supermarket as well, and regularly see people who appear to be gay couples doing their shopping (I'm probably wrong in at least half the cases, but there have definitely been gay people in our store with their partners who I've noticed).

So yeah, on the whole I'd say homosexuality is completely tolerated and treated as normal by the vast majority of the local population in my area .

 

[Julianking93]

Pretty horribly.

I mean... I can't even walk down the street without someone yelling at me, calling me a "******"

Oddly enough, there is a very large lesbian community here but not a whole GLBT. Just lesbians for whatever reason.

But yeah, when it comes to male homosexuality here, it's about as welcome as it was during the Crusades. >.>

 

[ddon]

My town is very nice and accepting. My town isn't very big though, so that is not too much of an accomplishment. We definitly get a lot of people from other towns because of the festival though, and I haven't seen them make any trouble about homosexuals, but I am not sure if they count.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

I've never kissed a man in public to find out. Someone's who's gay might feel a lot different than me, but I find the area is pretty accepting. It's a major city located near a large, private university. Although I once tried to organize a transgendered awareness event and people thought I was kind of weird. A lot were shocked at the level of discrimination, but that was the minority.

 

[bloobear]

It's a very homophobic area. There are about 4 people I know of who accept it other than myself. Everyone else seems either outright hateful or grossed out by it.

 

[OutforEC]

The degrees of tolerance around here are strange. As an abstract concept homosexuality is frowned upon by the general populace until it comes to someone personally known, then it comes down to judging that person as an individual. It's almost as if people think their gay friends are awesome, but the others are the ones that the social conservative fear-mongers warn them about.

 

[PleasantAsAHeadcrab]

Where I'm from, you'll get bricks thrown at your house and generally treated like shit.
Granted, we treat all minorities like that.
Thanks for setting the country back a good thousand or so years, Minnesota~!

 

[Readial]

We are just "meh" about it here at Keele, although this post alone may have brought me the wrath of the LGBT society here. XP

 

[Shifty Tortoise]

Very i'd say, i live in Manchester in the UK and we've got all kinds of stuff for the gays, festivals, parades, hell we've even got part of the city for them and the UK's first gay supermarket (whatever that is)

 

[Akytalusia]

i have no idea. and if i keep playing my cards right, i'll never have to find out.

 

[Dark Pythos]

In my area they are a sacred group who should be looked up to "Because of their COURAGE AND BRAVERY FOR STANDING UP FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVE IN!" but in my area, NO Body is anti gay, they have literally NO struggle but anyone slightly uncomfortable with being Molested and harassed by the same gender is a Hater and is Homophobic.

 

[hurfdurp]

I'm not entirely sure since I'm lacking the pivotal feedback, but I haven't witnessed any public hanging so I'm going to estimate that it is at least decent.

 

[GreyKnight3445]

well there was a Tea Party banner waving near the mall a few months back so I dont think I need to say anymore.

 

[zeldagirl]

The state I live in is very intolerant of homosexuality, but the city I live in is very liberal, so it's very open minded.

 

[MisterDyslexo]

Portland, Oregon. We legalized same-sex marriage for 3 months, then the Bible-beaters out in the boonies got it overturned. My parents are still married in my eyes, even if their license was revoked.

Thats terrible! The same thing happened to my uncle a while back, so now he has to deal with some sort of backdraft of taxes costing him far more than if he never got married at all. My heart goes out to them.

For the most part, yeah. I'm in Adelaide, Australia, and it's about... 70% - 75% accepted? I haven't been noticed any vocal criticism apart from an extreme/fringe Christian group that hijacked the "Equal Love" rally here about two weeks ago.

I heard about that. Didn't they throw a woman out of her wheelchair?! I guess they forgot "Love thy neighbor".

I've never kissed a man in public to find out. Someone's who's gay might feel a lot different than me, but I find the area is pretty accepting. It's a major city located near a large, private university. Although I once tried to organize a transgendered awareness event and people thought I was kind of weird. A lot were shocked at the level of discrimination, but that was the minority.

Most people don't understand Transgenderism, and still a huge portion of the LGBT doesn't either (not as proportionatly much as heterosexuals though), so I applaud you for that. If it weren't for my personal experience with transgenderism myself (best friend) I'd probably be one of those people. Although not nearly as many people are transgendered as LGB (about one out of 1,000 to one out of 40,000-depending on what facts on country, and inferments), the ignorance is still enough to ruin somebody's life (as it did my friend). Just a number to throw out, but I believe the life-expectation of the average transgendered person is somewhere around 33 years of age-worse than even the worst countries in the world, save I think two out of the almost 200.

Where I'm from, you'll get bricks thrown at your house and generally treated like shit.
Granted, we treat all minorities like that.
Thanks for setting the country back a good thousand or so years, Minnesota~!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXpOA3jPC04
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WyYRA4aZSI

I think these two men have earned some merit for your state.

 

[TehCookie]

Where I live everyone acts gay, so when someone really is gay people just think they're joking. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but once it is know that person is actually gay there isn't much of a difference.

 

[Flunk]

Getting upset with someone for being gay is like getting upset with someone for being short or a specific race. They have no choice over it, it just is.

The majority of people around here agree with me but probably not everyone. I've been told by gay friends that they get harassed occasionally by idiots. I live in Toronto, Canada so if you are gay it's a solid option.

 

[Kais86]

Fuck if I know, probably poorly given that I live in Oklahoma. I know precisely one gay couple and a guy who is probably bisexual, but who will never get laid because his appearance offends my eyes, and I'm a straight guy who doesn't put much into appearance.

I played RPGs (pen and paper) with all but one of the gay guys, I would watch shitty movies with the other (since my character died really often, because the GM liked killing me for some goddamn reason), because his taste in movies was really bad, and I had nothing better to do at the time.

They were okay, except the probably bisexual guy, he's fucking creepy.