justginger
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A teen boy recently came out to his entire community of peers at a school awards night.
As you can see here: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout...omes-gay-while-accepting-award-230305217.html the reaction was very, very positive.
Thinking back to my own years of high school, which were honestly not very long ago, this scenario would not have played out the same way. There would have been stunned silence. There would have been friends of that teen who were forbidden by their parents from hanging out with him. There quite honestly may have been people who heckled or left the auditorium if they had any previous hint of what was to come.
This makes me so very happy to see - a real life example of how things are moving forward, and bigotry is becoming less and less prevalent in society.
To those who have children - is this how you imagine it happening among your children's peers? Or would there be a less-than-positive outcome? I am hoping this is a trend that is being seen across the country, not just in certain places.
As you can see here: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout...omes-gay-while-accepting-award-230305217.html the reaction was very, very positive.
Thinking back to my own years of high school, which were honestly not very long ago, this scenario would not have played out the same way. There would have been stunned silence. There would have been friends of that teen who were forbidden by their parents from hanging out with him. There quite honestly may have been people who heckled or left the auditorium if they had any previous hint of what was to come.
This makes me so very happy to see - a real life example of how things are moving forward, and bigotry is becoming less and less prevalent in society.
To those who have children - is this how you imagine it happening among your children's peers? Or would there be a less-than-positive outcome? I am hoping this is a trend that is being seen across the country, not just in certain places.