Do you think that you'd be homophobic if you weren't LGBT?

don't think so, as I wasn't before questioning. But I always had problems to accept myself.

 

I would like to think that I wouldn't be, but I certainly would have less understanding of homosexuality if I were straight.

 

not at all. i was raised to accept everyone, and i was openly a lgbt supporter years before i fully understood my own sexuality.

 

I don't think I could have been. While my mother and step-father were pretty terrible people, I have a lot of queer family members and several of my childhood friends later came out, too.
Beyond that, I'm a very accepting person across the board. I'm just as likely to stand up for the rights of, say, black people and Muslims, and I am LGBT people and I'm neither nor. But I don't know how open or accepting I would have been if I myself wasn't a minority, so I don't know.

 

Absolutely NOT!! I have always been super excepting of my Aunts even before I knew about my own sexuality.

 

I maybe.. but just a little bit,

 

Nah, I was never really homophobic when I was really really young (having no idea what sexuality is), and it probably wouldn't be different today. I still remember when I learned what gay was. I was like, 5 or 6.

Mom: my mom
Dad: my dad
1: my great aunt
2: my great aunt's wife

(I barely remember it but this is basically summed up)
Mom: "[Dad], 1's marrying 2 in July *explaining stuff about wedding*."
Dad: "There's a lot of gays in the family... not that that's a bad thing but, it's pretty interesting to know we have some diversity in the family."
Me: "What's gay?"
Mom: *sighs* "[CR], gay people love people of the same gender, like mommy and daddy love each other."
Me: "Oh, okay."
Dad: "And you're fine with that?"
Me: "What's wrong with it?"
who knew I'd be like my great aunt years later ^.^

Not just that, but I've always been told that being gay is okay by my parents, and I was always raised that way (main reason they don't yet know I'm gay is just because of lack of courage lol, and planning and stuff)

 

I was pretty staunchly against it when I was young and before I hit the gay thing as I grew up. I remember there was this song I liked a lot, and my dad told me it was by Adam Lambert. I don't remember if he said if he was gay or not, but I started saying how 'why'd such a good song have to be made by a gay guy!'. My family was and is still somewhat homophobic, and it was instilled in me as I grew up. It's terrible how narrow minded I was, hating a type of people for no reason other than my parents enforced a stigma.

 

No, never. Even though being gay has made me more open-minded, I've always been a pretty open minded person. And even when I was younger, I didn't care at all that people were gay. I actually remember my mom explaining in the car to me what gay meant when I was about 3, and I thought it was pretty cool!

 

Honestly, I don't think I'd be homophobic. Even as a little kid who knew nothing of these big issues, I felt that it was just wrong and bad if someone was hurt because they were _____. It always made me upset.

 

I wouldn't be homophobic, but I'd probably be a much different person seeing as how I don't openly judge others since I'm usually judged for being gay.

 

If I wasn't bisexual I wouldn't be homophobic. I accept people no matter who or what they are and I just don't have the heart to make fun of someone just because they have different preferences.

 

Due to my mother being basically a radical right-wing activist, I think I would be completely homophobic. If I wasn't gay, I think I'd be a terrible person

 

me too :icon_redf
minus the radical right wing thing, i dont think id be the same person either

 

Eh. I don't think I would be too homophobic... I think that I was a generally accepting person even before I was questioning. I have just grown up in a fairly good environment. I have some people around me who are prejudiced about various groups of people, but I have enough people who aren't and I think they have really impacted me. Also, I've taken classes about social justice and I've always really enjoyed them and tryed to apply them to my life. I learned the whole "treat others as you would want to be treated" in preschool and it just developed throughout my life I guess...

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This... I feel like this is true about me now, but opposite like sometimes I have a hard time understanding how you could be straight or why you would want to deny a person that loved you, but I mean I don't judge them... I don't know. I don't want to say this, but I feel like I have sometimes had to talk myself out of being heterophobic... so maybe I would be homophobic. Who knows. *shrug*

 

huh funny that you ask this! I think I would not understand homosexual...er..ism? if it weren't for me being a lesbian. I would not understand that it is from birth, because I would have never have had the experiences or feelings I have had, or found the studies I have found if I weren't to have been urged to look it up. Would not be homophobic, I just wouldn't understand gay people, kind of in the same way I don't understand straight people! Lol

 

Nope I was very much pro LGBT before I realized I was apart of this wonderful community!

 

I think I would be homophobic. Well, sometimes I still think that Im homophobic.

 

Honestly, with my dad's side of the family, it's quite possible that I would be.

 

Even before I thought I might be gay, I had no problem with homosexuality or bisexality. My views on Trans issues were, admittedly, a bit ignorant, but I never had any problem with it.

Of course, as the matter grew closer to home, my sentiments grew stronger, but I was always in support of LGBT in general.