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Originally Posted by futurebear
@ ATDrake
Since there has been much to do about gay rights and bullying in the news, I will post this about the south.
We haven't gotten any better at all. I have lived here all my life and trust me, I've seen it from when I was a kid. The bad thing about it is, it probably won't get much better as much of it is passive aggressive.
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That's so very sad to hear. I'd read some horror stories in the news regarding the situation in those parts of the US, but also some hopeful ones which suggested that even glacially slow progress might be made.
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Originally Posted by futurebear
I think that will help someone somewhere understand that gays aren't evil incarnates and maybe teach their kids to be tolerant, which will stop a bully somewhere. Our actions are always watched, even if we don't have kids ourselves.
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I think perhaps you might end up really liking Lackey's Last Herald-Mage series. They were kind of written with that in mind, and on her website she has a number of fan comments which say that the LHM books really helped them come to terms with their identity (if they were gay) or help them understand that gay people were people too and shouldn't be treated any worse than you'd treat anyone else (if they were not gay).
And I think you might also really like Tanya Huff's Smoke series, which have a much more positive, multicultural set of stories as the experience would be up here and now. I won't pretend that Canada is perfect, because we still have a lot of issues to deal with, but generally speaking, acceptance of LGBT people isn't really one of them (outside of a few very backward places that everyone makes fun of and some intolerant old people who are going to die off eventually and a couple of hardline religious sects which no one really respects all that much if at all anyway).
Fun fact: the United Church of Canada was one of the ones who sent an official delegation to Parliament arguing in favour of making same-sex marriage federal law back in the day. They're supposed to be our largest Protestant denomination and second-largest Christian church, and they now work on anti-bullying stuff, according to an
article I read on about one of their programmes.
Incidentally, we have an opt-in politics and religion forum on MR if you ever want to vent about stuff and it might be useful to share your perspective when the topic comes up (occasionally some idiots go and post about same-sex marriage being immoral and against their religion and how they don't see why gay people should have equal civil rights and probably need to be reminded to act more Christ-like by someone who's actually Christian, if I read your post about your upbringing correctly).