Yeah, basschick, I'm sure. But I think what happened was in 1972 we didn't have a need to label anyone. We were all just barely gay and didn't really stand on the right side of the law.

Throught the 80s we went through the whole New Age and self-help movements, and everyone was trying to figure out where they fit in and where they belonged. It was no longer good enough to be gay, but you were a lesbian feminist, or a lesbian feminist of colour, or a leather top, or a rice queen, or a chicken hawk, or a gay father, or a gay recovering alcoholic. Everyone needed a label and designation.

And our communities diversified, we started rejecting the old ideas, for instance, that porn stars had to be young and smooth.

Yes, good thread.

Cheers
Dzinerbear