Let's make Non-LGBT the minority... 😉

Happy pride month! 🌈

Sources: Gallup surveys from 2012, 2016 and 2021 and the PRRI survey of 2023

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Happy pride month! 🌈
Pride is my most favourite sin 🌈
I realise this is probably a joke post, but I thought the whole premise of the anti-pray-the-gay-away argument (which I don't agree with btw, just to be clear) was that sexuality is fixed not chosen. If you can "make" non-LGBT the minority then that suggests sexuality can be manipulated and thus validates the PTGA position.
- Even if its not fixed or somehow we find a way to change it that isn't abusive in other ways, it would still be wrong for parents to make that decision for others imo. People deserve more bodily autonomy than that. The problem with PTGA is that it presupposes that being gay is wrong and that's the primary problem with it. Whether people can choose or not is irrelevant imo. There's also the secondary problem that the methods used to try to change children are often abusive in other way, but that's not inherent to it.
The unwelcoming post title aside (I assume in jest)...

A single takeaway of my personal opinion from this series of polls is that Gen Z is comfortable with themselves, don't feel the need to hide, and the older generations are following suit and/or the long fought battle for social change from the older generations have finally yielded an environment that people can just be themselves.

I'm 100% straight millennial (and thus didn't have to deal with this struggle personally), but I can for sure say the general culture today, I would feel comfortable being out in, but in 2012.... I would not have been. Still dealing with people I thought were accepting people falling for the the Prop 8 BS from.. what was that, 2008?

Proud for having a generally more accepting and welcoming culture/society.
- A single takeaway of my personal opinion from this series of polls is that Gen Z is comfortable with themselves, don’t feel the need to hide, and the older generations are following suit and/or the long fought battle for social change from the older generations have finally yielded an environment that people can just be themselves.
  
  At least a small part is simply people having the knowledge to realize they are LGBT, but this is probably more relevant for the less common parts of the rainbow. Part of that is just the internet has grown. I found I gravitated towards queer spaces personally despite thinking I was allocishet at the time.
  
  I can for sure say the general culture today, I would feel comfortable being out in, but in 2012… I would not have been.
  
  This is still dependent on what type of LGBT you are and what area you are in imo. Personally, I don't think I'd have had any problem being out as gay in 2012 (pretty sure a fair number of people assumed I was and I thought that was cool), but I'm still plenty uncomfortable being out as trans atm, for example. Granted, part of it was I was in school in 2012 and now I work in the field of education (fortunately not a public school) in Texas.
I don't really like how this comment section is going. Be(e) nice or I'll lock it.
- OK, now we've got people telling others to "piss off". The thread has mostly run its course anyway, so I'm going to lock it.
Is the dramatic percentage increase among the silent generation because all the queers take care of themselves and live longer?
- Maybe.. But probably, because tge last survey is from a different institute..
  
  Oh yes good point
- No, probably more people coming out due to social change
Happy Pride month!🤗🌻
Yip

Nyo more cishet :D
- Can I ask, why do people make comments like this? What's the appeal?
  
  when a large chunk of the population is trying to deny you basic rights at best, and eradicate you at worst, at some point you'll start mocking them online as a form of comic relief.
  
  Its called being silly :3
  
  I liked comments like that when I didn't realize I was LGBT. So in that case, the appeal was getting to be a non-cis-het.
It's gay

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