Absolutely. 100% yes.
Young people need to feel validation and need to relate to people like them if they want to have a healthy mental growth. They need to find models that they can look up, models like them, and they need to know that they are normal, understood and accepted.
Where I grew, it was not perfect, but I am happy that professors could talk about these subjects without backlash. We grew with the idea that there were peoples of all sexual orientation.
They were also a lot of gay peoples in our local star system, at tv and in movies. It really helped me become in terms with it.
I consider myself lucky, and I hope every other peoples will be able to have these kinds of discussion without filters, like we had.