Chapter 3

“Now, jump ahead to the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Despite free love and all that, TV must have made the planet seem smaller in a way. Because people from different parts of it were suddenly in everyone’s living room, it left viewers with the subliminal message they were seeing everything there was to see in it…the world, I mean.”

“Yeah.”

“So, since Bobby Brady, Danny Partridge, Blair Warner, Webster, Joey from Blossom, and Ben Savage’s brother on Boy Meets World only had crushes on members of the opposite sex, little Noah Mann might have thought that was how it had to be for him, too.”

“Hmm.”

“Now, it’s changing again. With hundreds of channels, social media, and internet porn, kids can see a sampling of all different kinds of ‘normal.’ For a while, when news shows would feature some bozo saying homosexuality was wrong, there was very little counterpoint, right? Because news was news back then, not a screaming match between people with varying ideas.”