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TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
In this ntext, feels herently biphobic, transphobic, homophobic, and ultimately wrong. It’s eply personal and often more plited than ftg the bary of beg heterosexual or homosexual. Acrdg to a report by LGBTQ rights anisatn Stonewall, only half (46 percent) of lbian, gay, and bi people and trans people (47 percent) feel able to be open about their sexual orientatn or genr inty to everyone their fay.
Even a more morn Bra, unnsc bias and overt homophobia still stigmatis LGBTQ folk as sexually viant and predatory, part thanks to the crimalisatn of homosexualy, which lasted until 1968 England and Wal, and 1980 Stland. Later 1988, durg Conservative Prime Mister Margaret Thatcher’s tenure, a piece of legislatn lled Sectn 28 was passed, which prohibed uncils and schools om "promotg the teachg of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship. " This led to an flux of "tnal" (read: problematic propaganda) vios showg gay men, specifilly, as predatory, and paedophilic.
Here, bears repeatg that there is not one sgle nnectn between homosexualy and paedophilia. In the past month, K Connor, who has bee a queer fan favore for playg a queer character – Nick Nelson, on the extremely popular gay Netflix seri Heartstopper, faced queerbag allegatns after a vio of him holdg hands wh a female star went viral. Queerbag is a practice of implyg gay or lbian relatnships ( a TV show or movie) to engage an LGBTQ+ dience or generate tert whout ever actually pictg such relatnships.