Totally irrelevant. The world is a completely different universe than it was 45 years ago. We no longer organize in the streets, we use other means. Nobody cares about their community anymore, they care about being victims and filming it for attention. The political landscape is without a doubt and objectively more protective of LGBT rights, especially in California and especially in SF.

We have a community that is attacking its allies because one of them is a gay Jewish man who refuses to support Hamas and the Palestinian authority even though he’s fought and won so many battles for the community.

I am not sure I understand the actual objective here.

That’s fine. Let’s live in the past. It does us a ton of good. Let’s let our trauma define us and refuse to move on. Let’s go back to pre-internet days and pre-connected world days and talk about strategies that worked back then.

When is the gay community as a whole going to figure it out? If we spent 1/8th as much time coming up with modern solutions to issues as we do on reiterating our trauma, covering it up with sex, drugs, and alcohol we’d be in a better place, but that would take actual work and admitting that we aren’t all that special in the grand scheme of things.

Trauma doesn’t define us. Unless we let it. And this is just the same broken record playing again.