Still a ways to go

musicprnt
Thu, 11 Aug 2016 22:08:08 +0000

@romanigypsyeyes :
I live in a relatively live and let live kind of place, most people if you asked them would not exactly be raging to ban same sex marriage or to overturn gay rights laws, but even around here kids still run into trouble and there are far too many people who at the very least, don’t think it is a big deal. I can only hope that when the younger generation of adults grow up and have their own kids, things will change, their own parents and grandparents may have raised them to be bigots but somehow they have grown away from that, if polls can be believed. I asked my son about it, and even though the world of classical music is one where there is a long history of gay artists and composers, the gay kids still run into problems, sadly. Some of it is the international nature of classical music, there are a lot of kids from places that are still in the dark ages in many cases if not openly hostile to LGBT people, but some of it reflects general society, too. My S shocked me when he told me of a friend of his, a fellow student, who transferred from one of the more well known conservatories in the world, and he did so in part because he was openly harassed for being gay among other things (which is weird, because said school has turned out a lot of musicians over the years who were gay themselves).