Gay MenGareth Roberts: How younger gay men are LARPing the lives of their forebears.

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It was 1993. I dropped in to see a friend, and on the wall of his typically disordered student bedroom was a poster against homophobia. Women kissing women, men kissing men. Standard stuff, you might think. But one detail flipped my mind. At the bottom was the legend ‘This campaign is supported by BBC Radio 1’.

This was a positive, welcome move. Just a few years earlier one of the station’s top DJs had been cracking AIDS gags. Radio 1, at least in the daytime, had tried (and sometimes succeeded) to ignore and exile to the margins any musical act that was a bit too gay. Now they were on board.

Gareth Roberts is best known in the UK for writing several episodes of Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures, and Coronation Street. He was and an early cancellation by the TQs because he tweeted wrongthink.

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Interesting perspective, thanks for sharing. I will say about this part, though:

Yes, there is still homophobia. But it’s nothing like it was and it’s often festering in the most unlikely and overlooked places – Stonewall, for example.

I do think there's still a significant amount, it just looks different. Now it manifests in the form of pressuring LGB and GNC people to get surgeries and start pretending they're a member of the opposite sex when they aren't.