FAke gay trend? We don't have that at my school. In my area, those kids would probably be physically harmed(I don't support this sort of thing for the record).
There is no skater trend at my school either. I always thought that that was an 80's thing.
We have emos that grow their hair long, wear black occult clothing, and draw weird pictures.
I live in a fairly small suburban town, that's very close to a major college town. Only a few years ago my town was very hostile towards gay people. A lot of that had to do with the strong catholic population, if you have to ask me why. Things started to get better last summer, for multiple reasons:
1) A Gay-Straight Alliance was started at my school, and those in it were/are quite vocal. There was even an attempt to include gay students in the district anti-discrimination policy that failed and it's failure resulted in a former board member and civil rights attorney being drafted by students to run for the board as a write-in candidate (I actually was her campaign manager), but that was a huge thing in the town.
2) As a result of the GSA and that whole deal, people have basically learned that the whole being a jerk to the gay kids thing wasn't going to fly anymore, because we gay kids weren't just going to sit back and take it anymore.
3) A new and much more accepting priest basically told everyone at the town's catholic church that if he would bar anyone who harassed gay residents of the town (especially teens) from the church, and he actually followed through on that threat by having the police show up and threaten to arrest those people for trespassing.
4) Finally the massive amount of teen suicides last year led to the yuppies in the town being vocal about political correctness. Not exactly how I wanted more acceptance of gays in my town to come about, but it has kind of worked.
So those are some of the reasons that this whole "fake gay" trend has started up this year. I'm honestly starting to wish I hadn't been involved in the formation of the GSA because of them. They literally show up to the GSA meetings with their "fag-hags" (women who hang out with "gay" men) and then ask us when we're going to talk about "fashion and gay stuff like that." in a fake stereotypical lisp. According to my BF, I actually turn brick red and grind my teeth so loudly that you can hear it across the room when they "fake gays" show up, although I don't realize it. So they really do bother me a lot, especially considering that some of them are the same people who told me that I better watch my "fag-hole" in the locker room a few years ago when I first came out.
As for the emo/skater trends:
In my school when I was a freshman, we had the emo/goths (long hair, cuttters, depressing pictures, poetry about death, etc.). Over the past year and a half they've turned into the skaters crowd. We no longer have many goths (only one or two in a school of 2,200), but we have a crapload of the skaters in their skinny jeans, Ed Hardy shirts, 2 sizes too small plaid button downs, and converse slip-ons, oh and lets not forget the greasy (as in not washed in a week) long straightened hair.
-Don
