When I was in high school nobody knew who was gay. I don't know if they would've gotten beat up, I think everyone was indifferent. No one would've been “proud” about it or made a big deal about it. Now kids have been taught that it's OK and even cool.
They will be taught the same thing in school about this vile topic. They will be shown how tolerant muslims are by forcing children to marry old men not like the Christians who are old fashioned and against this sort of thing...
I coached three seasons of SOCAL public high school baseball. Very liberal atmosphere. Yet homosexuality was a subject of such derision on the field that I occasionally even had to try and reign it in somewhat.
Unsuccessfully.
It was never so much against gay players, of which there were a few, but against homosexual culture in general.
One just cannot be queer yet be a jock.