But it means the stigma of being non-hetero is being eroded. It's acceptable (maybe even cool) to be something other than straight. It means kids are no longer being bullied into trying to be straight, as certainly happened to my generation. Or at least the bullying isn't being as effective.

How many of them will ever come out as anything other than straight, is a different matter. But I'm sensing that isn't the big deal that it used to be, either.

@NicoleCadmium Absolutely, that part of it is very good. I saw another report saying far more people now identify as bisexual than do as gay and lesbian combined. But bisexuals are far more likely to remain closeted and for much longer. So there is improvement, but a long to go yet. I recall a Harvey Feirstein quote (might as well be from any drag queen anywhere): "Visibility at all cost." It is more and more visibility that is humanizing us to hetero/cis world and lurching us unevenly toward widespread acceptance.
If only that were not understood by diehard haters as their cue to bash us and persecute even harder.

Broadly speaking, yes. I've taken part in lessons at my son's school where they teach that 'love is love' and that various family models, including one mother and one father, one mother or one father, and two mothers or two fathers, are all equally valid.

At the same time, we have lesbians attacked on a bus in London, and a man stabbed in the neck by youths aged 12-15 in Liverpool, in what appears to be a purely homophobia motivated attack, just in the last couple of weeks. So we aren't over the hill yet. It still isn't safe to be LGBT+, and there are still pockets of violent hatred towards us.

@NicoleCadmium UNFORTUNATELY...YOUR words ring true all over the world, NOT just in your area. It's a pity that we are all not more accepting of each other. WE have to accept straight people for who they are and their problems...but...UNFORTUNATELY...it is open season on US ALL THE TIME!!!