[petercooper]

it's hip to be gay now.

I say it's 25% genteic. 75% environmental.

[Maelstrom]

It was hip to be gay in my wife's high school.

A decade later they found out why: A teacher who was considered "cool" was molesting students by the score.

The school administration wasn't able to draw the connection between the dramatic drop in the proportion of homosexual students when he left for another school, nor were they keen to the reason for the dramatic rise in the proportion of homosexual students a year after he arrived.