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 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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Fwiw, I had the same impression, and partly because he didn't consider the possibility that women telling him this hadn't previously acted on anything because they felt that they *couldn't* act.
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And he also says progressives are "finding ways" to come out as queer which implies they're doing it in bad faith to satisfy some progressive checklist and dismisses the real experiences of people who feel newly comfortable openly naming their orientation.
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