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My brother was five years behind me in school. When I was in high school, there were NO openly gay students, and the one teacher (French) who was suspected of being gay was talked about in hushed tones. I remember on a school trip, I had that teacher staying in a hotel room with me and a couple other students, and a few days into the trip, another teacher asked me if everything was okay ("... you know?") with that teacher in our room.
Five years later, that teacher has come out and it's no big deal. The women's soccer coach is out and it's no big deal. There's a student group of GLBT (yes, T too) students.
Here's the really amazing part: this all happened in Salt Lake City.
It's my belief that society is rapidly coming to terms with homosexuality--to the point, I would hope, that it doesn't take sex education classes to expose people to the existence of homosexuality. By then it's too late to significantly impact prejudices anyway.
Now, should sex education INCLUDE education about gay sex and safe sex practices as they affect gay sex? Absolutely yes. I'd be very surprised if any of them do right now, but it's a VERY good idea.
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