The background of the contributor who saw no bullying of gays in school sounds much like mine. He says in parochial schools (which from outside the US I take to be mainly primary schools) his classmates had not even heard homosexuality was possible. In my secondary school I must have been in second year, when someone asked a teacher what the sin of Sodom was, he replied, as most people would then, "sex between men" and we couldn't believe or imagine it. No prejudice there, just a sign of massive ignorance.