Reply #4: In rural areas I'd say it's still very common

[Terran]

I moved from San Francisco to a midwest town of 30,000 in 1994, and I can tell you reliably that there are a LOT of gay people here married to members of the opposite sex and who have kids. They are forced by perception and peer pressure, but no one is physically twisting their arm. I'm sure the issue barely arises in big cities where anonymity is the rule, but not in small towns.