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Reply #26: No...but in high school, I didn't know any out gay people and wasn't really sure what to think. [View All]

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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-25-09 09:42 PM
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26. No...but in high school, I didn't know any out gay people and wasn't really sure what to think.
I wasn't raised particularly homophobic, but I was kind of squeamish about everything, I also got a big dose of "anal sex = AIDS = gay men = don't even think of dating a bisexual man."

I got to college, met a lot of gay people, learned that gay people were people like everyone else, got over the squeamish.

Same-sex marriage wasn't really an issue I thought about until I was an adult, and had no reason to oppose it then. I suppose I might have been uncomfortable, had the idea been introduced to me when I was in high school, but I wouldn't have been able to articulate the problem.
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