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I grew up in the 80s and 90s during "the gay plague" and terrifying adverts about it. There were no openly LGBT people around me until I left school at 16. For me it was that the rigid school system kept us in the closet. When I went into the real world I met loads! It was a breath of fresh air.
Thank fuck I live in a more secular country, so there weren't these open attacks by conservative and religious people on LGBT+ folk. A couple of my school mates from the 80s and 90s came out at different moments over the years, one of them works for gay suborganization of the Social Democratic Party here in Germany. I always look forward to his birthday parties, because the people who attend are truly open minded people whose company I enjoy very much. The breath of fresh air you were mentioning.