Am I crazy to think that most gay guys know what hanky codes are/were? A short conversation with an old friend led me to believe that even in the age of technology, the average gay "Boi" (retch!!) has zero inclination to research the history of glbt culture. Even things that happened in the last century. Forget Stonewall, most of them don't even know any gay related events/trends/figureheads of the 70s or 80s.

They say things like "I think the roots of gay music can all be traced back to Erasure..." and "I loved wristbands before it was cool to put them on your forearm..." and "No not low-rise, low-low-rise, get with the season!" and "I don't do hookups anymore, I'm so over that, I respect my body now...want a bump?" aack I can't stand it! They are completely unable to speak in full sentences when trying to express their feelings about anything too, what the hell happened to english??
Example: "I mean, like...I dunno, like I got so mad at my mom because, she like, I dunno I just, I mean, like, she just makes me mad you know? I mean, like, I don't know, I'm just mad you know?"

What the fuck? I'm only 25, I shouldn't be feeling a generation gap this hard should I?

I get the impression that typical social gay youths have all the worst stereotypical traits of women and men rolled into one vapid fashion victim package. If the older generations weren't so busy trying to get down these tragic youth's pants and complaining about how they only like younger guys but can't understand why most younger guys also only like younger guys and won't just give them a chance and dismiss them based on age and they really only relate to younger guys and blahblahblah....they might actually have something to teach these club/bed hopping nutballs. Something about where their culture and social freedoms have come from, what it took to get them, and what things were like before they were something that could be easily taken for granted.