[ SECRET POST #3643 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3643 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

OP, I think it depends where you live. For the record, I was born in year 1989 and my area had one person into any queer content (openly). How do I know it was one? Essentially her friends were all 'in secret' - I was massively surprised when it turned out some of my classmates exchanged HP books with her once (yeah, in a dark corner of school at 7 AM). Other people in other towns heard of her - she was also an outed lesbian. Not one person from my town (60k people) was out until recently. There was no queer content and if we seen it on internet we never mentioned it, at 16, she mentioned being into yaoi to me and I had no idea what it was. Then she mentioned being butch, also had no idea what it was. Was not sheltered, pretty rebellious and yes, gay.

Few years ago, had a friend who was a teacher and teenagers he taught were reading some books with queer characters and sharing them and he was so shocked, same as when the school did not fire him for being gay. It was a school that was last resort for teenagers when they got kicked out of all others. Meanwhile, a history teacher in my town was fired only because he was rumoured to be gay AND beaten up by his students (he transferred to mine, no idea if he was gay or anything else - he was a pretty bad teacher but could have been because all the pressure on him, so cannot judge, was not out myself). There was a short progressive period but it is indeed going backwards like people speaking about full circle above.

For some reason it was also easier for queer teenagers to admit being into yaoi / yuri than to be out, which was what my boyfriend did (he was that weird yaoi shipper, I keep laughing about it as his old Devart had gems like 'I will go to a con to see REAL LIFE YAOI!'). Ruined him and put a ring on it, so he cannot be all innocent yaoi shipper now. Aw.

[(Anonymous)]

SA! Was meant it to 3 and reposted on accident as thought it did not appear and it did in 2, darn!