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Daniel Philips's avatar

Attitudes to homosexuality have changed massively.

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Jack Kessler's avatar

A good one. Although support falling amongst Republicans in the US. https://news.gallup.com/poll/691139/record-party-divide-years-sex-marriage-ruling.aspx

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Daniel Philips's avatar

Yeah but still many positions of power in many sectors have had people openly LGBT leadership, in 1995 outside maybe entertainment (and even within that) it was a glass ceiling. Think back to that Chris Bradshaw campaign in 1997.

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Jack Kessler's avatar

Yeah, it's been one of the more remarkable developments of the last 30 years and I'm not sure we quite know why, beyond older people dying.

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Daniel Philips's avatar

More then that I think the misnomers and stereotypes that homophobia relied on have been discredit through personal experience.

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John Butler's avatar

You've never seen Back to The Future? Are you a serious person? 😃

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Jack Kessler's avatar

I was too young to see it in the cinema and then just lost track of time.

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David's avatar

I'm not clever enough to quote or find actual statistics, but I think there must still be recency bias in a 30-year history of climate change!

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