I think it's great that we've gone from "ROCK HUDSON IS GAY" to "Yeah, my partner and I ... " dropped into conversation. There's still whole segments of the population for whom that is far more difficult (professional sports, I'm looking at you), but overall society's progress has been good. That seems kind of paternalistic ("wait for it, it'll come some day"), and must be terribly frustrating for a member of the affected persecuted minority, but eventually, society does tend to evolve past its (more visible and egregious manifestations of) prejudices.
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Date: 2007-06-01 12:09 pm (UTC)I think it's great that we've gone from "ROCK HUDSON IS GAY" to "Yeah, my partner and I ... " dropped into conversation. There's still whole segments of the population for whom that is far more difficult (professional sports, I'm looking at you), but overall society's progress has been good. That seems kind of paternalistic ("wait for it, it'll come some day"), and must be terribly frustrating for a member of the affected persecuted minority, but eventually, society does tend to evolve past its (more visible and egregious manifestations of) prejudices.