Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture?
by ROTMetro on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:21PM
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I'm sorry you are having to see people allowed to be whole and who they want to be in public, that must be upsetting.
'Flamboyant' people were ALWAYS in mainstream entertainment, they just previously were required to have 'beards' in public or be called 'flamboyant' so that people like you wouldn't have to see them. When I was a kid, Liberace, Little Richard, Richard Simon's were all visible celebrities that I can name off the top of my head. Were they being shoved onto people? Now people don't have to make their sexuality a running joke in order to be themselves and that is somehow crossing a line? They don't have to hide like mainstream film star Rock Hudson. It's like my ex-girlfriend from eastern Europe who didn't think gay people actually existed and were some kind of agenda until her best male friend came out. I don't think more gay people are in the media eye, it's just they can be themselves visibly without having to do it Liberace style. And most people are OK with that.
'Flamboyant' people were ALWAYS in mainstream entertainment, they just previously were required to have 'beards' in public or be called 'flamboyant' so that people like you wouldn't have to see them. When I was a kid, Liberace, Little Richard, Richard Simon's were all visible celebrities that I can name off the top of my head. Were they being shoved onto people? Now people don't have to make their sexuality a running joke in order to be themselves and that is somehow crossing a line? They don't have to hide like mainstream film star Rock Hudson. It's like my ex-girlfriend from eastern Europe who didn't think gay people actually existed and were some kind of agenda until her best male friend came out. I don't think more gay people are in the media eye, it's just they can be themselves visibly without having to do it Liberace style. And most people are OK with that.