>>83393742uh shit i don't know, probably
it seems more common for everyone to be dicks here than overseas or something, but I'm sure it's not just locally, anywhere in the states could probably have it, not sure about internationally, but here it's a fucking mess
I remember being in school before everything was too bad and guess what, you could hug your best friend who's also a guy and no one would even fucking look your direction, because it wasn't a big deal, no one questioned if you were gay, no one did a damn thing. I never really hugged my guy friend, we didn't even do the appropriate-now shoulder thing, but I knew people who did
My son hangs around in school now with his guy friend and since they're best friends they're usually seen hanging out all day, and constantly gets bullied for being gay
he's in the fucking 4th grademe and him don't care though, but it's more of the fact that it's happening rather than us feeling hurt about it. Times have changed, as anyone old enough to know has said, but come on, you can't honestly say there's a place in the world currently where if two guys hug they don't seem gay.
I fucking miss back then. Now the only other guy you can hug is a family member, and be careful not to be seen as an incestuous fag
I sort of got off track completely, but to re-state the answer, I'm assuming it's mostly an American hostile-emotion thing.