[Hero21318]

I first realised that some people were gay when I was quite young – between 8 and 10 years old. I was watching the 10 o’clock news while my mum did my hair, and the word ‘homosexuals’ came up on the TV for some reason. Not having heard about it before I asked mum and dad about it, and dad explained that there were some people who ‘loved people of the same sex’ and pretty much impressed on me that they were no different from anybody else etc. Mum and Dad have few prejudices and those they do have are nothing to do with a persons sexuality, race etc. That was my first and the most lasting influence. I have never known (as far as I know) a gay person, so that has never affected any beliefs I have. Occasionally, the subject has come up when I am talking with my friends but nothing they have ever said influenced me to any extent. Mainly they are completely tolerent, although 1 of them has parents who are openly homophobic (they are devout christians). However this doesn’t seem to have affected my friend as she belives what she likes, and quite often laughs at her parents beliefs. It never ceases to annoy me that while at school they tell you all about different types of families – divorced, adoptions, fostering – but won’t/can’t broach the subject of homosexual families, and equally in so-called sex education, do not even mention the fact that not just a man and a woman have sex.

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Name : Hero21318, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Haven't settled on a sexuality yet!, Religion : Atheist, Age : 16, City : Aberdeen, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, 

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