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.