I've started seeing discourse, in realms some distance from here, purporting to tell the kids about how queer the 1970s actually...
talkinggorillabutler asked:
I've started seeing discourse, in realms some distance from here, purporting to tell the kids about how queer the 1970s actually were, and how fast that was buried come the 1980s. The tone is that such reaction might come again.
We might forget the ‘10s like we did the '70s, but I mean let me tell you The Queers had a place in the '80s narrative of itself: the AIDS crisis! That certainly broke continuity by literally killing a lot of people from the earlier scene off, and I wouldn’t expect even the most faithful reenactment of cultural backlash to operate the same way without it.