The word swinger wasn't mentioned once. Probably because the swingers are just quietly enjoying their lives under the radar.
Swinging is a very clear example of ENM.
Well almost a complete generational cohort of their elders is simply missing. They died of aids in the 80s and 90s.
There is a reason that the quilt is so large[1].
[1] https://www.npr.org/2012/06/27/155868611/pieces-of-aids-quil...
The flu makes us lose five "generational cohorts" every year, then.
100k out of *how many out homosexual individuals during that era in the area being studied*?
And it's not just raw numbers, either. It's how many lives / families were impacted in this unique way.
To add, it's also 100k that were almost entirely in a single demographic that was explicitly and implicitly being harmed by those in power during that era.
Nah, just elementary school Math.
It was around 1%, a considerable morbidity but still very far from losing "a complete generational cohort".
>a generational cohort of lgbtq people
That's where the 1% figure comes from. If you look at the whole population it is more like 0.0001%.
Sorry if Math hurt your feelings.
Btw, bigot means a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief or an opinion, which seems relevant.
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.
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.