Being black or gay in the west was better than being black or gay in any other part of the world. There are still countries where homosexuality is punishable by

Being black or gay in the west was better than being black or gay in any other part of the world. There are still countries where homosexuality is punishable by death. Being black or gay in the US in the 1960s was worse than being white and straight in the 1960s, but my precise point in my sibling comment is that this a stupid criticism because the West was pioneering equality. There seems to be some widely-held superstition that if we acknowledge Western progress, then we will stop progressing.