To wonder how people are still so homophobic?

[uptodatetech]

I've noticed it on here and in the village I was brought up in. My best friend in school was gay and he had an absolutely horrible time. He heard anti gay comments on the street and at home and couldn't wait to escape the valleys for London. I funnily enough moved there too. We are still good friends and the other day, I was asking him does he regret leaving home. He says even though he would love to live in the area where all his family lived and he was brought up; he never could due to the rampant homophobia.

When I was back at Christmas, there was a group of men 10 or so, in the pub chanting that "There are no poofters in this village". I was at how backward and homophobic people still are at home. Whilst of course there are homophobic people everywhere; I just feel so badly for any gay people struggling to grow up there still.

Where I live, we have a few gay mums and a few gay dads. There is no way on earth I could imagine them feeling safe visiting as a family unit to where I grew up. Then on here, I read anti-gay family posts.

How are people still so homophobic? Will it improve?

[Homefireburn1ng]

We don’t live in a Muslim area and are in a small middle class town. Plenty of educated people. Homophobia is alive and kicking here.

[Hopeygoflightly]

Yup, we’re a ‘gay’ family, 2 mums, young kids in a VERY LGBT friendly city and still get homophobic abuse. In general, and more so because there are so many people ‘okay’ with us being a couple ( thanks!) but not okay that we had children.

[Hopeygoflightly]

What is the gay agenda anyway? Stay fabulous? I feel like I should pop to a Tory rally or evangelical church to find out as i’m Apparently supposed to be promoting it as I myself am in the gays...

[uptodatetech]

When you’re at it however, find out what the Jewish agenda that some go on about? Love to know what I get up to all this time!!

[Hopeygoflightly]

I once got told by an old dear that my family was a ‘disgrace’ because we were so ‘normal’ and the kids ‘seemed happy enough’... nowt as strange as folk, I tell you.

[Tunnockswafer]

It would be very surprising if there were no racist, disablist, sexist or homophobic (etc) comments ever on mumsnet. Does that mean mumsnet has a problem with x-phobia? It would depend on the quantity and if they were tolerated by other posters/mods. That isn’t what I’ve seen, but I’m not on every thread at every time.

[Mysterian]

What is the gay agenda anyway?

It's the list of stuff that gets talked about at the gay meetings. (I've still not had the minutes from the last one!)

[amandacarnet]

The gay agenda is trying to get people to see that hate and discrimination is wrong. Just like the race agenda where people try to tell you that you are being racist and discriminatory.
It is so wrong all these people expecting you to act reasonably.

[SaskiaRembrandt]

Yeah, bloody reasonable people, who do they think they are going around being reasonable all over the place?!