I don't know if people even know the song about William anymore. I must have heard it when I was in high school if it was a 1970s song, so it didn't have much impact on me when I was growing up.
That said, I think that a lot of ideas have changed since then. You mentioned some of them--that being LGBTQ is perfectly okay, that parents should accept their children for who they are and not who they want the kids to be, and that LGBTQ people should be respected, just like everyone else. Unfortunately, there are plenty of people who disagree with these ideas...but the fact that sexual orientation isn't automatically seen by 99% of the population as "something wrong" is a big transformation in a fairly short period of time.
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on 2011-03-22 02:26 am (UTC)That said, I think that a lot of ideas have changed since then. You mentioned some of them--that being LGBTQ is perfectly okay, that parents should accept their children for who they are and not who they want the kids to be, and that LGBTQ people should be respected, just like everyone else. Unfortunately, there are plenty of people who disagree with these ideas...but the fact that sexual orientation isn't automatically seen by 99% of the population as "something wrong" is a big transformation in a fairly short period of time.