If the friends and surroundings change usually the people do to suit.
Put em under the old pressures and Im not so certain they'd hold up.
Speaking for myself, Im friends with and accept many sexual and gender diverse people now, where as when a youngster in mid teens I would of been one of the stupid uneducated pricks taking the piss out of them (which as the last straw sometimes send many to the grave). I would no sooner do that than take the piss out of a disabled person,Id rather shoot myself then live with it.