Reply #26: where don't they get MTV?? [View All]

[bearfartinthewoods]

it's in Europe, all through the americas, bootleg stuff is in China.

specificly, Real World...showing a gay person in day to day life has made a HUGE difference.

i come from dem parents who try to be tolerant but they are in their 80s. they adopted, for all intents and purposes, a gay guy who, while he was still allowed to live in his father's house, was shown no love or support.

my folks did that for him, without ever acknowedging the reason he was ostracized. it was the way of their generation....c;pseted support.

my generation, came to love everybody because of the sixties and some of those people were gay. when the sixties ended, the club scene started and there were gay people in the clubs. so we grew to tolerate, openly, the concept of gay people in the abstract.

since MTV showed gay people specificly, in everyday situations and in romantic situations the change has been dramatic. kids who didn't have the advantage of growing up knowing one of the people they loved were gay grew to love a gay person, via TV.