The Preference will not get to Zero

I mentioned the stupid anti-hockey hbo tv show. NY Times op-ed:

The remarkable success of “Heated Rivalry,” the steamy new television series about closeted gay hockey players, has been widely taken as yet another sign of social progress — evidence that acceptance of queer love continues to grow. We wish we could share that optimism. Unfortunately, new research that one of us, Professor Charlesworth, helped conduct reveals a darker truth: The decades-long rise in the acceptance of gay people in the United States peaked around 2020 and has sharply reversed since then. The popularity of “Heated Rivalry,” it seems, is a welcome burst of enthusiasm for gay life in a new era of anti-gay prejudice. ...

Last June, in an episode about the 2005 film “Brokeback Mountain,” which depicts a love affair between two cowboys, Professor Finkel cited Professor Charlesworth’s 2022 research to make a hopeful point: “There is still a slight preference for straightness over gayness, but it is getting very close to zero.”

The complaint is that the preference never got to zero.

Someday the present period will be seen as a strange mass psychosis. Homosexuals are maybe 2% of the population. Those interested in watching a homosexual romance is much lower than that. And some people seem to think that you must want to see it, if you are liberal-minded.

Democrats have gotten control of Virginia:

Virginia Democrats want to teach schoolchildren to “affirm” gay and “transgender” propaganda as part of their new “inclusive history” proposal.

A bill proposal from Democrat Del. Sam Rasoul would require history and social studies courses taught at public schools would be required to push the “contributions, perspectives, and experiences of historically marginalized communities, including racial and ethnic minorities; immigrants and refugees; women; individuals with disabilities; individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+); individuals from various socioeconomic statuses; individuals from various religious backgrounds; and any other group of individuals that the Board of Education deems appropriate.”