I confess it's actually deeply hilarious when one of them goes, "How can James Barry be a trans man when no one knew what that word meant back then and the concept of a 'trans man' is so rooted in modern culture? Obviously she was a butch lesbian"https://twitter.com/9BillionTigers/status/1379041940482580480 …
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It's all over 60's counterculture in this usage, "straight society" being used by dudes who would be v upset if you suggested they liked men
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It's interesting reading about the Mattachine Society and how they tried to deliberately, consciously invent a respectability-politics version of "gay culture" that had not existed before To create this idea of the wholesome middle-class white-picket-fence gay couple whole cloth
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Oh as in “the straight and narrow”
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And like, "straight" arises from queer people responding to society labeling them as queer or "bent". It didn't strictly refer to heterosexuality even in that original reclamation process
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