He believes that although mainstream society still does not accept homosexuality, younger people are different.
Mainstream society still has no clue about how to behave when confronted with homosexuality.
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"The gay lifestyle was still very much considered taboo and off-limits by mainstream society, " he says.
The assumption that women should be altruistic and self-effacing pervades both mainstream society and some precincts of the feminist movement.
For those who worry that some disadvantaged neighbourhoods are being cast adrift from mainstream society, today's JRF report makes troubling reading.
Despite a successful, multi-cultural model, these radicals share with their US and UK counterparts a feeling of being alienated from mainstream society.
Mainstream society considers smoking an accepted behavior and smoking remains popular.
It is a miserable existence which can sap energy and self-confidence, it can lead to exclusion from mainstream society and ordinary pursuits, to alienation and to marginalisation.
Public displays of affection are frowned upon in mainstream society, so at midnight, the only fireworks were in the sky: there was no kissing even among couples.
In Spain, one in four individuals sit on their hands, locked out of the opportunity to participate in mainstream society, while the return on their debt is increased.
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The parade was lent a uniquely Indian flavour by flamboyant cross-dressing hijras, known as eunuchs, although many modern hijras are gay men who feel alienated by mainstream society.
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"This left-out 25% is in danger of feeling totally marginalised from mainstream society, which will breed high levels of disillusionment, crime and exclusion, " said David Laws, Liberal Democrat spokesman.
Its greatest breaks with mainstream society, such as polygamy, are in the past, but the church still stumbles into the occasional controversy, most recently over its opposition to gay marriage.
It is a measure of how freely gays and lesbians have moved into mainstream society, at least in California, that those who seek to remove their right to marry are complaining about persecution.
We then as the mainstream society assume it is true what they say because, like our doctors and lawyers, we are taught to see them as the authority about what is going on in the world.
And author Miranda Sawyer, who grew up in Cheshire's Wilmslow - "a pink jumper, white stilettos kind of a town" - and wrote Park and Ride about suburban culture, says the 'burbs have always exerted a huge influence on mainstream society.
Of the suburbs studied, the report says at least half could already be called ghettoes, whose inhabitants felt rejected by, and were in turn rejecting, mainstream French society.
Mr Blair said the system needed "to ensure that in the end none of these children are left behind and put out of the chance of having a decent life in the mainstream of society".
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Drawing them into the mainstream of Jewish society through military or national service, and into work through the gradual withdrawal of welfare payments, should be a priority.
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Siwa's very isolation helped protect a unique society that until today stands apart from mainstream Egyptian culture.
And we said that the trillion dollar question is when is our mainstream education system going to adapt to the needs of our post-modern society?
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In his desire to bring dissident Catholics back into the mainstream Church, Pope Benedict has been negotiating with a traditionalist Catholic Group based in Switzerland, known as the Society of Saint Pius X, which roundly rejects the reforms of Vatican II.
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