I’m not LGBTQ+ so I can only say what I know from other people. But when you speak to older gay people, boomer gays and such, they tell you awfuly heartbreaking stories.
Of course gays and other LGBTQ+ folx still get hated on and discriminated and there is still a long, long way to go.
But that doesn’t change, that nowadays you can publish loveletters of two men, without destroying the lives of each person involved. Back then, the letter writers would have probably ended up in prison and everyone else with knowledge of them or any kind of involvement would loose their jobs and carrers and would have been shunned. Someone responsible publishing them or making a film about them, would probably go to prison too.
So yes. I’d call this a more enlightened time compared to Europe in the 1930’/40’s.
Not sure I’d really call this an “enlightened time.”
Times did change though, quite a lot even.
I’m not LGBTQ+ so I can only say what I know from other people. But when you speak to older gay people, boomer gays and such, they tell you awfuly heartbreaking stories.
Of course gays and other LGBTQ+ folx still get hated on and discriminated and there is still a long, long way to go.
But that doesn’t change, that nowadays you can publish loveletters of two men, without destroying the lives of each person involved. Back then, the letter writers would have probably ended up in prison and everyone else with knowledge of them or any kind of involvement would loose their jobs and carrers and would have been shunned. Someone responsible publishing them or making a film about them, would probably go to prison too.
So yes. I’d call this a more enlightened time compared to Europe in the 1930’/40’s.
To be fair, they said ‘a more enlightened time’, like how my face can be more handsome without me actually being handsome. :|
10% more enlightened
Relative to the 1940s, it is.
I guess it depends on the lense. Accepting various sexually? Sure. Our politics and the general state of things? I wouldn’t describe us that way.
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that you’re white and male
Do you know what was going on in the first half of the 1940s??
Compared to the politics and the general state of the 1940s? I, uh, would very much emphasize that the past is a much uglier place.
For now. There’s huge groups of people wanting to make the world 1940 again. And even more idiots that are willing to help.
I was thinking the same: Made into a book that will be thrown onto a burning pile of woke books if trump wins.