Their jokes about assigning gender to babies and to being transgender, dressing in drag, like all of it was a send-up.
Sure, they did punch down if you were a person who were in those groups, but the fact that it was large enough social event to be relevant enough to be a comedy skit on a television show or a movie seen by millions implies that there were some serious things going on back then that they could see and wanted to address.
What the hell was going on that put all of those things in their mind?
problem is the progress goes to about then. I have often commented that things have been going downhill post seventies but it was hard to notice for awhile and I would get blowback on how bad particular groups had it. Thing is they had it way worse in the 60s and the 50s and have seen little progress in the eighties onward. Feels to me like progress pretty much stopped or reverted since then on the environment, our infrastructure, and our social programs but like the few decades before had massive progress.
Think about this. Public sex clubs like ‘Plato’s Retreat’ and gay bath houses were mainstream in the 1970s. Bette Midler got her start performing at a gay bath house. There were porn theaters catering to couples all over the place. AIDS came along and threw everything back fifty years.
yeah and today we have roe vs wade thrown out and folks that are against condoms. ugh.
Hey, I’m against condoms. They suck, and don’t feel very good for anyone. That’s why I got sterilized, and when I was dating I got tested regularly and insisted on the same from my partner(s).
sorry. folks against condoms and all other forms of birth control.
I once read a novel from the 1970s. There were a couple of thugs who were arguing over who’d had more STIs. It was a simpler, happier time.