<p>@Coriander23 You don’t know anything about me so you can’t make judgements on what I’m like. I’m not a militant gay person. I wasn’t even out until a few months ago and I have never actually announced my sexuality, only inferred it. It’s quite clear that people in the United States still do those phrases, since a previous poster just said she hears it at Duke frequently, and with no intention to offend you, whilst the US is a lovely place and most Americans I’ve met have been very kind, your country does have a disproportionate number of homophobes considering how developed it is - my concerns are not misplaced by all means. It’s not that I’m sensitive or fragile, rather, I don’t want to go somewhere where I have to tolerate bigots. For example, here: <a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube; and <em>especially</em> here: <a href=“Gay PDA Experiment - YouTube”>Gay PDA Experiment - YouTube; Even though I have met lovely people from the south, I do, unfortunately, reserve the right to write it off to avoid these types. If a man can’t sit on a bench with his arm around another men without getting looks (never mind a phone call to the policeman to report him - who was nearly about to tell them to stop) then that’s not an environment I want to be in. They would have had more respect doing that in the Vatican City than in Alabama. </p>