That’s how it was in my high school. A few people were gay and no one really cared.
In fact, the boys that were gay were in good with the girls were great at setting us up with the girls we liked.
Probably because they didn't get in your face about it...I just don't want any of this stuff waved about in my face or my childrens. If someones sexual preference is the same sex, please leave it in the bedroom. I'm sick of seeing these idiots make fools of themselves "prancing" around the Keys,NY City,S.Fran or in New Orleans with an agenda to flaunt...I have very good friends who are gay and hate the fact that these flaunters flaunt!
There was someone at my HS who acted gay. Really gay. He was heavily into drama, spoke with a noticable lisp. Some other kids (mostly but not all boys) made fun of him when he wasn't around, but never, so far as I know, to his face. I didn't know him; he was a year older. I was around him fairly frequently because I was big into music, played in all the show bands, spent my free time in the band room.
Turned out, he was gay. He died of AIDS in the '80's.
Not so now, not at all. If anything, I don't see kids today quite getting why it was ever a big deal. My first hand experience with college kids is that the vast majority think older people are off their nut when they try to make an issue out of this.
It simply does not matter to me, not the way other things do. I'm more interested in honesty and whether someone keeps their promises and if they are otherwise a good person - you know, stuff that has the potential to actually affect me.