LGBT representation today is like the interracial representation in the 1970s and 1980s. On-screen Interracial relationships are now non-issue, but it was fifty years ago. The On-screen LGBT relationship is undergoing the same phase from backlash to eventual acceptance. I mean, people don’t change overtime and still operate on the values and assumptions they grew up in. Millennials and Gen X are said to be the forefront in lgbt advocacy; but as a millennial, many of my peers are still homophobic because of the things they picked up upon growing up. Twenty years ago, declaring something “gay” to express dislike is 100% normalised. I’m sure many kids who said that and didn’t realise the error of their ways now as adults, have become far right.
It’s funny. All the people who were crying about interracial relationships are still just as right wing as ever, but they don’t stop to think about how their frothing opposition to displaying interracial relationships is gone and had been replaced by LGBT relationships with no real issue and none of their fears about interracial relationships have come to pass. They’re completely led around by the nose.
I’m sure many of them are still “against” it but not in the same way. But plenty of them would tell you they’ve always been fine with it if you asked.
LGBT representation today is like the interracial representation in the 1970s and 1980s. On-screen Interracial relationships are now non-issue, but it was fifty years ago. The On-screen LGBT relationship is undergoing the same phase from backlash to eventual acceptance. I mean, people don’t change overtime and still operate on the values and assumptions they grew up in. Millennials and Gen X are said to be the forefront in lgbt advocacy; but as a millennial, many of my peers are still homophobic because of the things they picked up upon growing up. Twenty years ago, declaring something “gay” to express dislike is 100% normalised. I’m sure many kids who said that and didn’t realise the error of their ways now as adults, have become far right.
It’s funny. All the people who were crying about interracial relationships are still just as right wing as ever, but they don’t stop to think about how their frothing opposition to displaying interracial relationships is gone and had been replaced by LGBT relationships with no real issue and none of their fears about interracial relationships have come to pass. They’re completely led around by the nose.
I’m sure many of them are still “against” it but not in the same way. But plenty of them would tell you they’ve always been fine with it if you asked.