JOE STONE IS ON IT
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IS BEING GAY ABOUT TO BECOME MAINSTREAM?
IN THE IMMORTAL words of my father (on hearing that a friend’s son had also come out) ‘there’s a lot of it about these days, isn’t there?’ At the time his remark felt so regressive that I practically had an out of body experience hearing it. Now I think, well, yeah. Because, while being gay is hardly the new-fangled trend that his logic seemed to imply, there can be little doubting that sexual fluidity is on the up. A YouGov poll earlier this year found that just under half (46%) of 18-to-24-year-old Brits consider themselves completely straight, while only 6% identified as exclusively gay. In case your maths is as bad as my geography, that leaves 52% somewhere in between.