Though on the subject of Stonewall...
I once was having a conversation with a gay friend of mine, and he joked that for some conservatives, gay marriage might be their final revenge - that they'd force gay people into the suburban white-picket-fence mould of the idealised het couple. Now, he was joking - he was delighted that marriage equality was a thing - but it got me thinking.
What would it take to have a kind of fusion between the OP and gay rights? Like: a world where there's the 50s ideal of no sex before marriage, but there's full sexual equality, and there's LGBT marriage equality too. Basically, a world where being openly LGBT is just fine, but where gay and straight people have to live in that nuclear family suburbia set-up, just instead of it always being husband-wife-kids-dog it can be husband-husband-kids-dog or wife-wife-kids-cat (apologies for the stereotyping there
).
Could that be a thing, at least for a while, do we think? And would people who don't necessarily think of the OTL sexual revolution with fondness be happy with a set-up like that?
I once was having a conversation with a gay friend of mine, and he joked that for some conservatives, gay marriage might be their final revenge - that they'd force gay people into the suburban white-picket-fence mould of the idealised het couple. Now, he was joking - he was delighted that marriage equality was a thing - but it got me thinking.
What would it take to have a kind of fusion between the OP and gay rights? Like: a world where there's the 50s ideal of no sex before marriage, but there's full sexual equality, and there's LGBT marriage equality too. Basically, a world where being openly LGBT is just fine, but where gay and straight people have to live in that nuclear family suburbia set-up, just instead of it always being husband-wife-kids-dog it can be husband-husband-kids-dog or wife-wife-kids-cat (apologies for the stereotyping there
Could that be a thing, at least for a while, do we think? And would people who don't necessarily think of the OTL sexual revolution with fondness be happy with a set-up like that?