There's also the fact that Jeremy has been around gays for sometime, while Ennis's sole experience before meeting Jack, was seeing the corpse of a rancher who was tortured and killed for being gay. That has to make a huge difference when it comes to dealing with your own sexuality. Poor Ennis. Jeremy is lucky.
I agree. Dupree has also had Ennis and Ellery as a role-model for a same same-sex happy couple, and he lives in a relatively tolerant environment (Wes, Edna, the
cops at the station who know about Ellery).
On the other hand, there were gay - related shootings (!), Amos Marigold, the difficulty finding a non - homophobic ADA...
Plus, He had feelings about men before, but didn't own up to then until he was 26. We can't expect it to be smooth sailing ...
PS - good luck with the job situation, Louise!