Even though I was around 8-9 years old when I realized what the kids said about minorities was a load of crap, it took me longer to understand homosexuality and that it was not some 'creepy thing that pervs do'.
One of the things that Harvey Milk believed that if people knew gay people that they wouldn't vote for Prop 6 and he wanted people to come out of the closet and let their families know that gay people are normal just like everyone else. I have to say that it took me working with 2 gay men to finally realize that homosexuals weren't the deviant freaks that the kids where I went to school claimed them to be. They were just like everyone else and honestly, 1000% nicer than those kids who told said bad things about homosexuals. Not proud that at one time I bought into the gay-hating memes out there but I'm glad that my mind was opened up to the fact that it was all bullshit. That was almost 30 years ago.
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