I understand this desire especially today. Less driven by lack of equal rights/access to education.

But more that I think we've lost a lot of community and the built in 'family' that LGBTQ people build together, often because of rejection from biological family which is becoming far less common.

With the mainstreaming of gay culture we've lost gayborhoods and our spaces have been opened up. Plus with more acceptance non-queer spaces are more accommodating too.

I personally think increasingly appropriated & co-opted. by straight white women in particular e.g. obnoxious bachelorette parties who treat our spaces as zoos and us as animals: honnnnney yasss queen vomiting on drag queens without tipping behavior lol.

Lesbian spaces have basically disappeared even in NYC there are only a couple left.