Have you ever been with friends and someone announces that these young gay kids don’t know what it was like back in the day and should be more respectful of their elders?
I hate this, because it has been the complaint of every generation since mankind dragged itself out of the swamp, regardless of sexual orientation.
Still, it’s absolutely true that gay people, like Black and Native American people, were long written out of history textbooks save for unresearched stereotypes.
When you live outside any clear historical context, you have to dream up your own version of history and culture. That’s partly why marginalized communities are so often plagued by infighting, generation after generation.
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