About 4-5% so that should be a good few prem footballists for example

Disagree. Where do you live? I see plenty of gay people showing public displays of affection when out and about and i don’t live in London or a trendy town or city.

Depends on the setting, just as it does with hetro people. And just like alot of hero people, some LGBTQ people don’t feel the need to show public displays of affection. The last thing my wife and i would do is to show any public displays of affection. We’ve sort of grown out of snogging in the middle of the shopping centres.

Kisding or holding hands? WTF is wrong with you

Interflora is 50?!!

Whole BBC Olympic reporting team (at times)
Worlds best rugby ref (IHO)
Legends of ladies tennis
Many prem footballers
Billy Vinapoula

That’s without having to even think. I might have got at least one wrong though

We stopped imprisoning homosexuals 50 years ago. We stopped hanging them in 1835. We’re generations ahead of much of the world.

Begone with your context whatabouterry. Never mind the fact that gay people still get executed in plenty of places, they might get disapproving looks in the UK.

jimjam same belfast then

http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/official-anti-gay-hate-crime-rise-9129786

Well Belfast isn’t Northern Ireland and a hateful minority don’t represent public opinion, or cultural attitudes.

There’s a Q now as well?

Edit: Nevermind, that’s out of date it’s LGBTQIA now.

I would suggest if you dont like seeing people hold hands or show affection theres plenty wrong with you.

I had to Google that. They only went and added a P.
It’s now LGBTQIAP.

I think you’ll find the cool kids are all talking about LGBTQIAP+ now. Though that might have changed by the time I’ve typed this.

There is still room for trans species representation. C’mon LGBTQIAP+ get your act together!

I don’t get it.

Your whole argument seems to be centred around YOU not finding it offensive.

Step out the echo chamber and you’ll find a whole different story.

Your whole argument seems to be centred around YOU not finding it offensive.

Step out the echo chamber and you’ll find a whole different story.

Trust me, I don’t exist in an LGBTQP+ echo chamber. A point you should consider is that displays of affection which I regularly see happen in the open, are in the open, in front of the culture at large, for anyone and everyone to see.

I don’t find it offensive but the fact that it happens at all is evidence of a lack of danger, or more likely just apathy towards it. Worth remembering too that over 60% of people turned out to vote in favour of gay marriage in the (notoriously catholic, conservative) Republic of Ireland, so hardly just MY echo chamber.

Yes. A rugby legend wasn’t publicly out but had the support of all his team mates, and the most respected ref is out and still the most respected and loved ref. In rugby – think about that game’s previous reputation.

We had token gay characters in TV shows at first, then we had main gay characters who were there to explore gay themes – now we have main characters who happen to be gay but it plays no part in the storyline and isn’t even mentioned.

We even have gay schoolkids who are accepted, and even transgender schoolkids who have the support of their peers. Even when I was a kid that would have been inconceivable.

So just to recap – I am trapped in the straight closet, and apparently in an echo chamber because I’ve observed gay people doing things they would not have previously felt comfortable doing.

jimjam, you seem to be debating a completely different point now. We’re talking about whether people find it obnoxious or not,

That’s rather subjective though, as Jamie points out. And I would find myself in agreement, I don’t particularly care to see anyone regardless of gender, race, colour creed or sexual persuasion chewing the face off each other.

Things have changed immeasurably, yes.

And thank Christ for it too.

Those that feel threatened or offended by any displays of affection are just professionally offended types and worthy of being ignored.

😀

At school in the 70’s there were apparently no kids who were gay and being gay was the favoured term of abuse. Looking back of course there must have been several of my friends who were gay but not openly (I think 1 in 20 is about right). In a cosmopolitan place like Edinburgh being openly gay is now by and large accepted by everybody. I probably have as many gay friends as straight.