A sad truth. So many still married to people the can't even stand and for what? A society that doesn't even give a shit about them.. I wish I could help liberate all my fellow lgbtqia.
yes it was all those freelings and issues - it was just easier to push those thoughts out of minds and get on with doing things like being a husband as expected, home renovations, community service and servicing the car as we could "in the old days"
I am 65 and as rambunctious as I was starting at age 14 in the 70's (shhhhhh... don't tell anyone) I am surprised that I am still here and negative. My college friends have either passed or are now poz. I feel quite boomerless - especially not being able to share memories with my co-conspirators. 😈
There was no information available about LBGQT folks for us boomers. I had a friend who liked to cross dress but he never told me - it slipped out when we were shopping one day. I had no idea what say to him! I know I hurt his feelings and we lost our friendship. I wish I had known about this then!
I can attest to the last part of that, knew a city council member as a family friend, upstanding citizen. Married, two children. Was known by his wife, they married for convenience to be accepted by “society”. Society should accept him as he is imo. Thank yo for posting this.
yep. there was a known gay boy in my high school. people made his life miserable. he moved to California after graduation and died of aids during the epidemic. he was a good caring person.
I grew up in Ky (late ‘60s-early ‘70s). My best friend was a gay male classmate. It was hell for him & another friend of ours. I’m grateful they survived AIDS. However, I lost other friends to it.
This is absolutely the truth. I'm not a Boomer (I'm Gen X) but I remember through middle and High School (1980's) It was acceptable to use gay as a pejorative and it was seen as the worst thing you could claim someone was. It's amazing for me to remember how small, stupid, and bigoted we all were.
At about age 15 i realize that the reason I always felt so different was that I was gay. That was sometime between 69 and 73. Lived in the closet then for 25+ years before coming out at age 42.
Boomer here living my best life with my wife.
It is true that many died during the AIDS crisis. But we have made progress since then just as we did after Stonewall. And my marriage is just as legal as Clarence Thomas’. We will face this new era with strength and pride!
Can add Gen X in there too, although there are more of us there aren’t the numbers there should be. Lost a whole lot of friends along the way. Hell, even distrust of medical professionals due to profiling in the 80s and 90s led to deaths that could have been prevented.
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I'm a tail end boomer and saw it. 💔
now we are back in a fight for our right to exist...
I may be old and tired, but I am still willing to unpack my steel-toed stilettos and fight like hell.
Yes, I'm a Boomer. Some of us made it through!!
It is true that many died during the AIDS crisis. But we have made progress since then just as we did after Stonewall. And my marriage is just as legal as Clarence Thomas’. We will face this new era with strength and pride!
They Gave My Nanny Ruth HIV & My Nanny Jean Alzheimers