[ SECRET POST #6764 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6764 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, I think the correct interpretation is probably the first one, and...I don't think it's bi-erasure at all, and it makes sense in the context of the time. There were a lot of people then (and I'm sure there are still some now) who fooled around with the same-sex and said they were bi as an exploratory or attention-getting thing and came out the other side straight as an arrow. I knew quite a few lesbians and gay men at the turn of the century who had been burned by that sort of person, and I don't think it's particularly useful to pretend they've never existed, even though doing so can complicate things.

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair I’m not sure the 90s were the best time to pretend to be gay in history but uh sure

[(Anonymous)]

The '90s was when public perception started to shift and sympathetic and positive representations of gay people started appearing in the media. 'Friends' itself showed Carol and Susan as having a loving relationship and being good parents to Ben. We would not have seen states start legalizing civil uniond, and then full marriage, in the early aughts had it not been for the progress made in the decade prior.

Does this mean that it was great everywhere in the '90s? No, of course not. But there were definitely places where it was no longer a big deal, NYC being one of them.