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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Do you think that you could have steered clear of people who made gay jokes and hateful comments about gay people in Texas in 1985? I doubt it -- you couldn't even do that in New England in 1985.
I'm asking this as a serious question and not trying to engage in battle with you. It sounds as if you believe nothing has changed -- not just that the Baptists haven't progressed, but that the openly expressed hatred is just as prevalent now as it was 20 years ago.
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Depends, I guess, on what you do and where you do it. A colleague recently remarked how she hates going over to the AIDS hospital, and she doesn't understand why gay health care practitioners don't "change their behavior" if they see HIV infection all day long. Struck me more as ignorant than hateful, but it makes me wicked uncomfortable to talk about my brother around her.
That said, I don't think my brother or any of my gay friends have too hard of a time of it here in Houston. People are always shocked about that, and I don't think that 20, 30 years ago that would have been the case outside of Montrose.
