@mina Wait, what? Four had come out as gay, while still in high school, in 1988?! I graduated high school in 1983, and I now know at least six from our class who are queer (including me), but NONE had come out in high school. It would have been inconceivable. But that was in a semi-rural U.S. high school where more than half of graduates didn’t go to higher education. Where was your school located?
@Rachel_Thorn
I went to high school in West-Berlin (slightly posh neighbourhood).
Whilst, there was certainly some of it around, open homophobia was not well received.