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While I don’t ride or die for Pete Buttigieg, the vitriol directed at him is completely insane. “When I was younger I wished that I could have taken a pill to turn me straight; but I have accepted and embraced my identity now” is an *extremely* common sentiment from Millennial and older gay people!

“This out gay man who was sixteen years old and living in Indiana when Matthew Shepard was murdered used to wish he could be straight. This proves that he is homophobic.” Do these people hear themselves?

It's even improved from fifteen years ago, I say through gritted teeth when I see a teenager use the term 'gay panic' to describe their feelings like it's a cutesy thing....

45 years ago. One of the things we X-gen achieved, besides succeeding in a soft landing of USSR, and crushing apartheid, was to make everyone consider people as people.

More people need to read Praxis (X-Men)

It really is WILD how much it's changed. That is good to remember. Though you would think the weird Friends mania that went around a few years ago would've clued them in.

The “Not that there’s anything wrong with it” Seinfeld episode (which looks pretty awful today) was unusually sympathetic to gay people at the time.

Yeah that specific attitude was an important step on the journey to mainstream acceptance.

"Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" being mostly forgotten now has been a real boon to Jim Carrey's career. Of course, he's also an anti-vaxxer moron, now, but he could be known as an anti-vaxxer who made one of the most over-the-top transphobic film endings in memory.

Count me among the people who have little to no memory of a pre-Will & Grace America. I remember Bush administration bullshit in the 2000s but I also remember it was an era of rising LGBTQ+ media representation and of my out middle and high school classmates being largely accepted by their peers.

How do you think they'd respond if they learned that Ellen risked and lost a highly rated sitcom by using it as a platform to advance LGBTQ representation in mainstream media? Is that worth more or less than being a bully in the office?

I still remember having to be the one to explain to a young and *amazingly* flamboyant (Seriously, Elton John would tell them to take it down a notch) what 'Friend of Dorothy' meant, and why there had to be code phrases back then. They'd never lived in a time when it wasn't okay to be out.

It saddens me deeply that this kid didn't have any elders around, and it fell to a cis straight guy to give the advice and lore they should have gotten. (That said, they were an absolutely awful housemate.)

Feel free to ask Ronald Reagan why there aren't any gay elders around.

bluesky is 90% someone imagining a Pete Buttigieg, tricking themselves into believing that Pete Buttigieg exists and then getting mad about it

I'm not wild about his Bruce Harrell endorsement

Pete Buttigieg: I struggled with accepting my sexuality but I’m glad I eventually figured it out because I have a wonderful family now This freak: talking about his coming out journey is proof that Pete Buttigieg is Gollum

People still yell threatening slurs at gay folks walking down the street in LA and SF. That's in 2025 not just back in 1995. Toss some AIDS trauma in there and whooo buddy.

No one under 40 or so was sexually active during a time before effective antiretrovirals existed. Add in the modern existence of PreP and it’s no surprise people don’t have conception of the 80s and 90s.

Butti is over 40, but I get where you are going with the kids these days

A few years ago I had a 19-20 yo gay coworker who had been raised in an lgbt-friendly church all his life and had never known that mainstream evangelical Christianity was homophobic. God, did I envy him.