In my own circles the tolerance towards the LGBT community is above the average, I suppose. They're either friendly/supportive or pretty neutral in a not-my-business-what-a-man-likes kind of way. They certainly won't let someone's sexual orientation to get in the way of simply being friends or w/e. But that's in my own circles, that are already pretty tolerant compared to the rest of the population due to most of us being debaters and we debaters need a pretty open mind to always understand both sides of the topic. Plus most of the senior debaters here in Estonia are pretty much political correctness incarnate, so even if they did have something to say, it's not like they could.
For the rest of Estonia, things aren't so pretty, unfortunately. When the Civil Partnership Act (basically allowing gay marriage, just giving it a different name) came into question in our parliament in last fall, the public opinion was pretty much divided on the issue. About half of the people supported it and the other half was against it. It got pretty heated here and there, for example, I can certainly say that my father was one of those against it and we almost had a fight over it (luckily we both had enough common sense to avoid it this time). The bill passed narrowly and thus gay rights in Estonia had a major win, although now some conservatives are trying to get into the parliament, so they could "uphold family values". I'll give you three guesses to figure out what that means.
So I guess Estonians aren't as tolerant as they could be, but there are certainly those that really are supportive or at least don't hate the LGBT community, especially the younger people. The older people are still holding on to, well, old values which aren't quite what we feel is right.
I swear Hunter if this is supposed to be bait I'll kill you nah 8/10 for making me reply
