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Sneaky's avatar

"Why would older LGBTs stay in the closet as the stigma plummets?"

I mean this is really easy to answer? Objectively it's still much higher cost for older gen to come out.

"Being part of Gen X, I confidently assert that we were far less intolerant than earlier generations."

Bizarre! I am a millennial, and even I grew up hearing plenty of F slurs and remember even in my college years gay was commonly used as a synonym for bad.

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Lucy's avatar

I also thought that that is very easy to answer. Shame and stigma aren't lost overnight because teenagers are now more open to something.

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