| I'm a CMC Mom and an artist. My daughter was raised with a lot of gay people including gay familes with children, in our circle of friends. She is part of the 1/3 of CMC students who are liberal. I'm positive she and all her friends are accepting beyond what you've experienced in the past. For example in seventh grade at her middle school one of the guys, a star football player, came out as gay. There wasn't a single ripple in his popularity at school and my daughter and her entire circle of friends continued unfazed in their affections for this very nice boy. I think people in general vary in their ease with sexual preference issues depending on their upbringings and their own sense of security in who they are as a sexual being. Of course it goes withoutv saying that there are jerks in every crowd. But from what I know as an observer of one small segment of the CMC student body-you will find plenty of people for whom your orientation, however you choose to express it-is an absolute non issue, as in-they won't give it a single thought other than to note it in the same way that they would note your hair color. |