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[–]BEB 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I forgot that "queer" was also used to mean pedophile.

It just shows how the people running the LGBTQ+++++ show these days have no respect for the G especially (I never heard an L being called "queer," more "dyke") and what gay men, still relative young gay men, have been through.

Talk about appropriation. The TQ +++ activists have no friggin' clue, nor do they care, about the hard work of the gays and lesbians whose shoulders they are standing on, even as they crush LG.

And sorry I'm not mentioning the B as a separate entity -from my memories, the B was not separated by a distinct letter from L and G in the late 70-early 80s: the B were just part of what was referred to as "gay rights" when things were still very bad for homosexuals. I could be not remembering it correctly, though.

[–]KCStuffedAnimal 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No, you're correct. Bisexual visibility was just starting to happen, and it was barely spoken of as an orientation.

You are also correct that these young smartasses don't know or care about what came before. I don't know what disturbs me most about them: Their antipathy for feminists? Their clueless embrace of harmful stereotypes? Their disrespect for older activists? Or their fascist tendencies?