exactly.

Its also important because whether or not its warranted, people look up to celebrities. There are many kids who use sports stars or popular authority figures as role models. The overall support of the NBA, along with many pro players and people across the states show the increasing progress for the changing of old beliefs and taboos.

It's a shame that there is so much prejudice against people who are different from the mainstream.
I have an openly gay cousin who was raised in a devoutly religious family.
I can't recall their reaction when they discovered his preference. Most likely negative from his step father and maybe from his mother too. I don't know for sure.
Over time things changed for him and now his parents accept it and refer to him as simply eccentric.

From some of my reading, homosexuality is a natural phenomenon that also occurs in animal species to limit the population.

Needless to say, we humans are severely over populated. So it's only natural.

It is sad that people are still losing their jobs and having children taken away from them because of "different" lifestyles.