White and straight ?

Right , before I start this post I want to say nothing in it is supposed to come across as at all judgemental and if it does I will apologise in advance , this isn’t an excuse but you know by now that I don’t always type things in the way they are sometimes read 

So , I left school officially in 1990 (unofficially ……well we won’t talk about that eh ) and although I live in a village my senior school combined pupils from other villages as well so I would estimate that in my school year there would be about 300 pupils . Now obviously I didn’t know them all , I wasn’t Little Miss Popular , but it dawned on my when looking at some of my school friends on Facebook that I don’t recall there being a single person in my year from the lgbtq+ community.

This can’t be right can’t it ? Surely amongst 300 pupils there must have been one person who was gay and out ? And even now as adults I can’t think of anyone who has ‘come out’ since school . There was one girl in the year above I think who was a lesbian but this seems a remarkably small number doesn’t it ? 

In contrast I know of many of my friends whose children are openly gay , trans or non binary so why wasn’t this the case in my school year ? Was it because our parents generation weren’t as accepting of anything they perceived to be ‘different’ so my generation were less likely to be open about their sexuality? I thought we had progressed a bit better than this 

I must also say that my senior school wasn’t exactly diverse either , again when I was there , there was one boy a couple of years above who was of mixed race . Now it is much better with a thriving Turkish community , kids from Caribbean families and many Asians so maybe back in 1990 I really did live in a ‘Stepford Wives’ type village where  nearly everyone was white & straight ? Xx