darthdevidem01 said: Wow this thread got huuuge. We had a interesting workshop on homophobia at the end of last year at med school. The message was that homophobia causes immeasurable damage to confused young teens & feelings of having no way out (and many other potential self-worth issues). This is why LGBT teen suicide rates are so much higher than staight teens. One suicides when one sees no way out...that should be proof enough it's not a "choice"....all these teens need is someone to put a hand on their shoulder and say, "It's okay, it'll get better, you're not a monster & you can have a happy life". Anyway it's about time this homophobia nonsense ended. Thankfully we seem to be getting closer to acceptance in Western society...in one of our lectures on "surrogacy & alternative conception techniques" at the end the lecturers asked us if we'd find it okay to let two dads have a child. 95% of our year put their hand up. 10 years ago in the same lecture only 10% had put their hand up. They said with each new batch of students the % saying yes for gay parents adoption/surrogacy has gone up. Anecdotal evidence yes but acceptance is growing...
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That's a great post with some interesting stuff. I like that 95% of your year put their hands up. I hope that it's a similar stat outside of University circles.