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The Fe Bros. release this clip, which shows how kids om age 5-13 react to gay marriage proposals * kids react to gay *

Hodg legalized gay marriage natnwi 2015; and one after "Heartbeat, " an animated short film featurg a same-sex uple, was released ltle du is smarter than a lot of adults this world I a't even gonna lie ??— Young Ice?❄️ (@donlogan197) Augt 28, 2017.

" The biggt thg on the Inter this week also volv a lot of output om the other kid-face parts, revalizg a sense that the llapse of anti-gay-marriage laws is evable. "Kids React to Gay Marriage, " a vio posted two days ago which 13 kids watch same-sex marriage proposals, already has more than 2 ln views. Release this clip, which shows how kids om age 5-13 react to gay marriage proposalsByNov 04, 2013 11:26 PMTagsIt's been a big year for the gay rights movement, pecially terms of marriage equaly.

Have fally tackled the topic their Kids React seri, askg kids between the ag of five and 13 (om California, is worth notg) how they feel about gay proposals and marriage (H/T Gawker). Some were pleasantly surprised by the lack of fay drama their revelatn ed, spe havg worried about gettg kicked out of their How to really help gay teens thriveHer book, Growg Up Queer: Kids and the Remakg of LGBTQ Inty, is a ttament to how much ndns for gay youth have shifted. It’s a relatively recent thg that we ll each other “gay” or “straight.

KIDS REACT TO GAY MARRIAGE "VERY ENURAGG" NEW VIRAL VIO—WATCH NOW!

If [LGBTQ inti are] not even your realm of thkg or perspective, ’s really that much harr to image yourself as a gay person. If your social ntext isn’t that, don’t necsarily mean you’re closed to the ia of homosexualy, but maybe you don’t sort of see the same way and e the same words to scribe .

Throughout the untry, you’re gog to see the different pockets of how people are managg gayns. They might tell the story that their parents were pretty ol and that went well, but then everybody sort of tolerat the grandparents’ were a few parents who were like, “There’s nothg wrong wh gayns or queerns, but you’re not gay and you’re not queer. If you are gay, you’re often forced to talk to your parents about somethg that has to do wh sex.

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Robertson: The study clud black, Lato, and whe people, and there didn’t seem to be that prence of homophobia based on race. I thought that was profound, that there wasn’t a racialized story about homophobia.

An credible new vio is makg s rounds on the Inter that asks a group of children, ag 5-13, their opns about same-sex vio starts wh the kids watchg two different viral vios of gay marriage proposals (which n be viewed here and here) and then a brief Q&A about their opns surroundg marriage equaly ensu.

"The reactns of the children are both heartwarmg and hopeful, suggtg that rights for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Amerins uld very well be close to a non-issue for the next generatn.

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