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> young LGBTQ+ people are against learning from their elders No, there's a missing generation. As (previously) one of those, my generation is now the "elders",

> young LGBTQ+ people are against learning from their elders No, there's a missing generation. As (previously) one of those, my generation is now the "elders", and we had to learn in a strange, weirdly sheltered way. Our elders were dead or hiding. The topics were taboo, the representation garbage, and the content online? Often blocked in the place we had internet access. I do a lot of teaching to my younger queer friends. Sometimes I have to do a lot of research on a topic before I can give an answer. In addition, Swingers weren't talked about in any part of my growing up. It wasn't until as an adult I looked at my partner and said "Oh, they're having a key party" at an exhibit of a model 50s-era home in the midwest.

t-writescode 2y ago
Sorry, yes, I wasn't intending to give the impression that I was ignoring the many, many that died in the 80s during the AIDS epidemic. I was intending to refer to Millenials as the elders and Gen Alpha as the "young LGBTQ+". At least what I see on TikTok has reflected a lot of the elder (Millenial) LGBTQ+ people becoming periodically frustrated with the younglings for not listening to them as they talk about exactly the frustrations / issues the new ones are going through or aren't having to go through. Weirdly, swingers *were* talked about in my family when I was young.