James Dreyfus on Twitter

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Interesting and pretty GC thread from a predominantly LGB perspective: mobile.twitter.com/DreyfusJames/status/1083869077699997697

What happened? Melting pot of online porn, backlash against women’s rights, big pharma needing new ways to make money, charities like stonewall needing a new cause (to get funding) all combining to create the chaos that is trans ideology.
Also I do worry about the mental health of our youth who are growing up online rather than with their mates in the real world.

So agree. The LGBT world I hung out in through the 90s was a lovely place, accepting, welcoming and funny. Most of those people have moved out of the clubs and groups now and its gone to small friendship groups who avoid the joylessness, puritanism and thoroughly unpleasant values now front and centre.

I can't think of one gay/lesbian friend I have who doesn't pretty much spit at the sound of the word 'Stonewall'.

I grew up in the 80s and 90s, and I completely agree with him. I'm 48 (so a liitle bit younger than him) - I just don't recognise the young people of today. They just seem so angsty and serious. We weren't, we had angst, we had battles, we wanted social change. But not this.

Sort of related to this -

mobile.twitter.com/tucker_shaw/status/1041839498999603202

I remember the time I kissed my femme girlfriend at the train station, and a gang of lads were there who thought it was sport. I know she had a terrifying train journey home, and I got punched in the back of my head for my trouble. I remember being able to share the experience with some gay male friends, as we took a studenty trip to Canal Street, and the sense that we were community was extremely heartening.

But honestly, it didn't take too long for the centre to stop holding, and one of the guys is now long dead and I still wish I could rerun that time in my life and do it better. Liberty is a really fragile thing, and I've learned that we ourselves are often the ones who destroy it, through carelessness, and sometimes malice, and most often times fear.

That's a lovely twitter thread. So many old friends and colleagues died from AIDS in the 80s and it's all just disappeared. Their memories and their legacy - to be replaced by this vile shitstorm....