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Originally Posted by DrSkipper
People tell me that not all LGBT are the same and not everyone fits into stereotypes, but I don't generally meet someone who wasn't a "flamer" or very obviously gay. In my Speech class there are three different members of LGBT and none of them "look" or "act" like the stereotypes you see on TV. I'm not saying this is a bad thing at all, but it took me as surprise because if they never said anything you would have had no idea they were gay.
Does anyone else find this interesting? I find it so interesting. I have many gay friends but most of those people are very "out there" and sometimes in your face about it, so it was interesting to see LGBT who weren't the stereotypes.
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I find it strange (yet interesting) that people are so stereotypical about LGBTs, but honestly, none of my LGBT friends are even close to the stereotypes that people like to place upon them. I'm admittedly one, too, and I don't think that I'm anywhere near a stereotypical LGBT. Of course, it would help if I heard a few of them, but I don't think that being open about it puts a label on you that you have no self-confidence (one girl in my English 2 class told me that being open about being LGBT was just as bad as cutting yourself in front of lots of other people).