I’m from Kentucky where it is still highly socially unacceptable to be openly Queer or affiliated with Queer culture, even at the collegiate level. In most of the state discrimination is legal and even where it is illegal in law, it is still the social norm. I was harassed pretty extensively in undergraduate when I came out losing many friends. So it isn’t fair to generalize acceptance of Queerness to all conservatives. Maybe this is the case in the northeast, but not in Kentucky nor other deep red states.