PT has been doing a terrible disservice to LGB people, hasn't he?
I was thinking about the people for whom trans has a sexual/sexuality component, expressed for example in how they dress or how they post on social media. And how the only trans person I know irl gets on with their job and wears jeans and a sweater like everyone else. And isn't like that at all afaik.
And then I was thinking about Pride, and how over-sexualised it is to my eyes. Whereas the gay people in my life express their sexuality in exactly the same way I do, ie via who they live with/marry, but not as a "statement". And I feel that is surely the norm?
So my question is, was the gay liberation movement : driven by? infiltrated by? attractive to? co-opted by? predatory or boundary-dismantling types all along?
Or was it simply a wider liberal movement that attracted dubious characters, like any social / political movement will?
Only pondering incoherently here, happy to have my thoughts sorted out by someone more clear-thinking.