I'm the same age as Pete Buttigieg. I did not meet a single openly gay person my own age until I went to college. There's still some way to go. But it's remarkable just how quickly things have changed for the better.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/14/us/politics/pete-buttigieg-gay.html …
A few years older than you. My HS of less than 500 people had a small handful of out gay students, myself included. Also several kids who were quietly known to be gay or lesbian by their friends and whispered about, but weren't out to everyone.