I quite liked this Slate piece about discomfort with fluidity among the older gays, but there was a gender subtext that made me uncomfortable. https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/06/rigid-fluid-identities-queer-history.html …
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The author, a gay man, gives two anecdotes about women who recently came out as queer or questioning despite not having very many same sex experiences and being partnered with men.
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The author describes talking to some of his older gay peers about this. He doesn't say if these peers were other gay men, but I found myself wondering. He also doesn't say whether all the recently out people he's felt uncomfortable with were women, but I found myself wondering.
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The rest of the piece I liked, even resonated with. But I wondered: Is this an older gay person who is uncomfortable with the fluidity and openness of queerness today? Or... is this a man who is uncomfortable with women's self expression looking different from his own?
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It seems necessary to mention that there's a long history of gay men not wanting women in their movement. Lesbians and feminists were treated with hostility and contempt by gay rights men. So, maybe this was about old v new. But it reminded me of something else.
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