Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-25184427-20140722165407/@comment-6383956-20140724220116

DManCO wrote: Jackson Van Kleeck wrote: I think it's just that we're not used to it. Of course you aren't. Until very recently we had to hide it to avoid violence. Understand that it was not uncommon even just a couple decades ago for judges and juries to dismiss charges against people who assaulted, or even murdered, "known homosexuals". People who attacked gays could and did defend themselves by arguing that the mere sight of them triggered a "natural" violent response! Just a minor correction: that's still not unusual in many parts of the USA, and is even less unusual in a much-too-high percentage of other countries. One reason why we need the media portraying LGBT people positively.