05-16-2022, 02:49 PM
(05-15-2022, 09:13 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:(05-15-2022, 09:01 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Aren't most LBGTQ people involved in monogamy? I think you exaggerate the reckless rebellion and histrionics in gay culture. Perhaps it seems that way from the safe distance of a red state, viewed on conservative media perhaps?
If anything, histrionic persecution and attack on non-straight-white communities has escalated since Trump came down that escalator, and since Tucker Carlson took up his cause. We see more and more Charlottesvilles and Buffalos, and more and more attempts to rob them of their voting rights.
I lived in Chicago for half a decade. I'm not sheltered when it comes to gay culture (though I do likely have a lower threshold for what is considered degenerate, as far as both gay and straight culture are concerned)
It may not take very long to get a distorted view of what's happening if one lives in a red state. Maybe that's not true for you, I don't know, but it also seems to me that red states are in anything getting redder despite migration trends. Living in the SF/SJ Bay Area I have my share of acquaitance with LGBTQ people, and I think the majority are monogamous. Even if not, there's nothing wrong with playing the field either. As for histrionics, maybe what you see is just what I would call having some fun. But I'm not sure what you refer to.
One thing I have recently become informed about is how many trans-gender people of color are murdered just for who they are. And Republicans are taking advantage of homophobia to wage culture wars against gays by passing ludricrous laws. So to say there's no more need for gay and trans social movements seems incorrect to me. I would not deny that people in social movements can become extreme and annoying in their defensiveness, and that does not help their cause with other people.