Not exactly existent, not exactly frowned upon, certainly not accepted. More or less blissful ignorance or redneck entertainment. The ignorance is humorous. Someone put a gay flag sticker on a rowdy redneck's truck and he thinks one of his nieces or nephews got it from somewhere and put it on there. Doesn't even know what it is. Of course a lot of men boast things like, "he better not touch me if he knows what's good for him." Then of course he doesn't know his kid brother is gay and lives in Alabama. So no, not anything to speak of.