What caused the shift in public opinion when it comes to homosexuality?

what is true?

Media follows waves. Bias is, of course, present. But why be so negative to a positive situation? Instead of trying to pit one vs the other, maybe people should be focusing more on banding together to fight injustice.
 
Media follows waves. Bias is, of course, present. But why be so negative to a positive situation? Instead of trying to pit one vs the other, maybe people should be focusing more on banding together to fight injustice.
I am not pitting one vs the other. I'm just addressing why I think public opinion has shifted, and I think a lot of the reason is the media. Just my opinion. I'm all for everybody being able to have orgy's with each other. I just don't think the media has the appetite to support two agendas. There's a reason everybody who doesn't know better thinks racism is over. 
 
I remember it was open season on gay jokes all throughout high school and I graduated in 08. So it wasn't all that long ago. Not that people had anything against gay people, just that it was okay to make jokes about them still at that point. There came a point where it became weird to use the word "gay" or f** as a derogotary term. I look at people weird now if they say it and I grew up in the generation where we all did.

In terms of public opinion shifting, I think political correctness is actually more than just an annoying thing everyone has to put up with, it actually sets boundaries on what is acceptable and what isn't in society. It's like a small invisible hand that gives us some direction on morality. It subtly empowers gay people and people who support them to be like "yeah, that's right, you CAN'T say that." There's also the implied notion that saying things that are politically incorrect is immoral as well.

The shift wasn't all of a sudden, it happened in small magnitudes. You saw more commercials like that Grant Hill NBA commercial. I still remember that vividly and people making fun of the commercial itself. You heard about gay activism more and more. Gay marriage kept popping up and actually confronting everyone with their opinion on the issue, while simultaneously it's become immoral to say bad things about gay people and gay rights activism kept popping up, so it's like, well you're just a plain **** if you say no to them getting married then. Social justice warriors got a bigger voice and platform so they've taken up arms about a million issues, gay rights being one. Plus at least half of us don't give a damn about another person's life and are worried about our own, so with all of these things pushing us in one direction, a lot of us are gonna be like "alright, you don't want us to say that and you want to get married? yea that's cool. ok."

I feel like transexuals are where gay people were, at least in public opinion, like 5 years ago.
 
It may sound strange but the Real World: Philadelphia  (2004-5) was pivotal in shaping my own assumptions and prejudices. 

Aside from "Teck" (Hawaii), I recall being disappointed that there weren't any (dope) black male characters on the show. So I was pumped that Karamo Brown was casted. I saw Karamo in me. He sported timbs, rocked fitted hats, and listened to hip hop. Some of the heads I grew up with, and who had never previously watched the Real World,  were hooked. We had a character on mainstream television who neither exuded the politics of respectability (Cosby) nor the shuckin'-and-jivin' of chain-swinging, platnum-teeth wearing, ugly-cup holding rappers. Finally, I thought, there was a black male archetype to whom I could relate.

It was a gigantic shock to me when Karamo began hooking up with men on the streets of Philly. How could someone so dope, I wondered, actually be gay? Many of us were confused: was this some kind of cruel joke that MTV was playing on us? Why cast someone who looks like us only for him to be "instructed" to "act" gay? These were the ways my teenage mind thought about homosexuality: as a choice, as something incompatible with blackness, as a deviation from what "true" black manhood should be. 

With time, a bunch of reading, and, as some of you have pointed out, learning that some of your closest friends and family members identify as gay, lesbian, and/or queer, transformed my thinking. I've also tried to situate the words, "live and let live," in the context of today's far more pressing issues. If you are ready to fight against police brutality, institutional racism, climate change, economic inequality, and anti-abortion fanatics, then I don't give a damn how you identify. 
 
When Kobe got fined for calling a ref the F-word, I knew things started to become serious 
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I dont believe i ever held any negative sentiments towards gays like the one's society as a majority once had.

But i think Matthew Shepard and the show/movie MTV did back sometime ago did a lot in shaping my views and supports of gays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shepard
 
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As a black man this is such a pathetic mentality. This some loser ****. Admitting that you took a L to homosexuals about rights? After centuries of slavery and fighting for freedom, civil rights, and equality that's just some bull **** I can never agree with.


The more I see black ppl pit our struggle against gay ppl the more I :smh:


What? I'm not comparing any struggle vs anything. I'm simply answering OP's question.

The gay moment made enormous strides following the civil rights movement of the 60's, and they def benefited from the movement, when it came time to take the fight out of the courtroom and start addressing the subtle racism that had become normative in American culture following the reforms of the 60's and 70's. The gay movement become the focal point of the media. 

You the type to name call, so please act accordingly when talking to an adult.
What does LBGT civil rights have to do with black ppl pursuing civil rights?

Is there some imaginary race where you can tell public opinion shifted and it became either us or them?

You literally said "When it became clear that it was going to come down to either them or blacks getting rights." That is literally making it us vs. them and it's ************* bull ****.

When did the public pit one against the other?

Also that's how it suppose to work, the world we living in today is built off ppl benefiting off the pioneers of days past and moving forward. I honestly don't see how bringing that up means anything.

To say media chose to make the gay movement a focal point has what to do with black ppl getting rights? Why did you decide to pit black ppl against gay ppl?

You call it name calling but I say the shoe simply fits. A spade is a spade. Like I said before I'm :smh: you on some complete and utter bull ****. Such pathetic and limited thinking. Sound like a ******* loser.
 
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What does LBGT civil rights have to do with black ppl pursuing civil rights?

Is there some imaginary race where you can tell public opinion shifted and it became either us or them?

You literally said "When it became clear that it was going to come down to either them or blacks getting rights." That is literally making it us vs. them and it's ************* bull ****.

When did the public pit one against the other?

Also that's how it suppose to work, the world we living in today is built off ppl benefiting off the pioneers of days past and moving forward. I honestly don't see how bringing that up means anything.

To say media chose to make the gay movement a focal point has what to do with black ppl getting rights? Why did you decide to pit black ppl against gay ppl?

You call it name calling but I say the shoe simply fits. A spade is a spade. Like I said before I'm :smh: you on some complete and utter bull ****. Such pathetic and limited thinking. Sound like a ******* loser.
 
What does LBGT civil rights have to do with black ppl pursuing civil rights?

Is there some imaginary race where you can tell public opinion shifted and it became either us or them?

You literally said "When it became clear that it was going to come down to either them or blacks getting rights." That is literally making it us vs. them and it's ************* bull ****.

When did the public pit one against the other?

Also that's how it suppose to work, the world we living in today is built off ppl benefiting off the pioneers of days past and moving forward. I honestly don't see how bringing that up means anything.

To say media chose to make the gay movement a focal point has what to do with black ppl getting rights? Why did you decide to pit black ppl against gay ppl?

You call it name calling but I say the shoe simply fits. A spade is a spade. Like I said before I'm
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you on some complete and utter bull ****. Such pathetic and limited thinking. Sound like a ******* loser.
You sound like the type of dude to say "excuse me sir" if you ever saw me in real life.
 
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During happy hour, some guy from work told us that the gay persecution in the US was / is worse than what black folks went through.

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During happy hour, some guy from work told us that the gay persecution in the US was / is worse than what black folks went through.

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I woulda told that BOY, to boss his life up and snap back to reality
 
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Don't address any questions and tries to attack my character. That's what I thought.

Lil B? Seriously? I see what kind of ***** I'm dealing with.






 
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Dude feels a lil b gif attacks his character. Sensitive brotha, see why you reppin the movement so much 
 
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If only meth changed the colors of this site to rainbow for one day, I hope I'm alive to see the outcry.
 
2015. The year of the flip flop.

Charlie Sheen went from winning to positive status.

Kobe leaving the game like he tired of it.

Blacklivesmatter flipped into a terrorists group by Bill O'Reilly and people following suit.

50 shades of grey turning out to be the most boring hyped up movie about a sexually deviant psychopath and white privileges.

"Post Racial America" when you visually see people murdered because of skin color become normalized.

People obsessed and hyping up guy/girl next door porn in mainstream media and now James Deen has rape accusations by multiple porn stars when it all looks like rape on film.

Still trying to win wars by arming "moderate rebels groups".

Black Church leadership buck dancing for FaceTime and air time with Donald Trump.

Jenner
 
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i wonder if all these dudes going to bat for the lbgt movement were caping this hard 10-15 years ago?

like where was the outcry then? 
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Thats the same thing those racist white folks said when their peers decided to march with blacks

"Aye Bob I wonder if Jill was so supportive of blacks getting rights when her mom had them on her farm as pets. Where was her outcry then?!"
 
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