Is anyone else having a hard time with homophobia and starting to think it's not possible for us to ever be accepted or even tolerated?
I've been thinkong about this a lot and it seems it's just impossible for us to ever be accepted. Most straight people just despise us and view us as subhuman. Throughout most of human history it was never accepted or tolerated. People like to point to ancient Greece and Rome but it actually wasnt. Consensual gay relationships were not accepted. They had institutional pederasty which is bad and not the same thing and they basically had a sex slave system where the people of status were encouraged to do what they wanted to men and boys beneath them. That's not normal gay acceptance.
Today, most parts of the world hate gays. All the of the Middle East. All of Africa except 1 country. Most of Asia and most of South America and Eastern Europe.
In the west, Western Europe had relative acceptance for a few decades. In the US, we only had it for about a decade before it started going back to "normal". It seems like the progress made Throughout the west from the 80s through 2015 was an anomoly in time and culture and now it's starting to "correct".
A couple viral anti gay things happened over the weekend. First conservative media was acting unginged over what they framed as a gay couple "mocking" their baby. Most of the posts and comments were unhinged. Many were saying things like "when are we going to start the death penalty for these demonic, perverted, sodomites?"
Then yesterday, there was this young male gay influencer who approached a gay couple on the street with their kids, accused them of being pedos and told them he was very concerned for their kids safety. One of the dads reasonably lost his cool and punched the guy and was arrested. The conservative has a go fund me and is probably going to be given hundreds of thousands and hailed as a hero. Also, most of the comments on social media about it are just as unhinged towards the gays.
Things are going to get much worse for gays pretty quickly here and I don't think the left is going to say anything about it. They're too scared to touch any lgbt issues because they see the writing on the wall. Even Newsom has been distancing himself and he said he "fell prey to" gay advocacy. Idk, I'm just done