Poll question for LGBTQ supporters ONLY

Poll question for LGBTQ supporters ONLY Mar 4, 2019 1:54:59 GMT

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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Mar 4, 2019 1:54:59 GMT

Mar 3, 2019 17:15:26 GMT audiosane said:

Mar 3, 2019 1:40:19 GMT darkreviewer2013 said:

I think kids should just be allowed to be kids. Devoting time and energy to emphasising the different sexual orientations of people who are far too young to be sexually active seems pointless to me. A form of tokenism.

I'm not talking about being sexually active at all.

Part of allowing kids to be kids is kids expressing interest in one another. For me, it began when I developed a crush on this girl in my kindergarten class. I developed several other crushes throughout elementary school before I left the 5th grade at the age of 11. It was a fairly common thing for certain boys and girls to be popular, in part, because a lot of kids found them attractive. Had nothing to do with sex.

Were you ever interested in anyone back when you were in elementary school?

I did have the odd childhood crush and definitely found the opposite sex attractive at that early stage of my life, though it was extremely innocent stuff.

I'm not actually against including hints of some kid being attracted to a certain boy/girl of their own sex, but I'm against the idea of children (as in pre-teens) dating and having "relationships" (in the romantic sense) in general and this applies regardless of their sexual orientation. So movies would need to be really careful about how they handled such matters.

Teenagers are, of course, a completely different matter and I'm 100% in favour of representing LGBT teens in film.