They can change when people see change around them. The events with the greatest capacity to change us are personal and concrete. A story is stronger than a statistic. All the speeches in the world won't have nearly as great an effect on your brother's attitudes towards gays as you will by coming out to him. A gay-rights rally will not humble a homophobe half as much as his friends' condemnation of him will.
People make fag jokes because they think nobody cares.
Well, I care, and some of your friends care, and maybe you care, too. And I bet the world wouldn't fall apart, either. Imagine a world like that. Pressing Esc will stop animations on this page. The Cavalier Daily, Incorporated.