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Originally Posted by dissention
I agree. But I'm saying that with the changing of the guard back in '80 to the neocons, gay hatred was not only pushed further across the country (such as in "middle" America), but it was an issue that was exploited by the neocons; just look at Reagan's popularity and his absolute disdain for those with AIDS (he singlehandedly kill thousands, if not millions). With the likes of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell on television every morning pushing the gay hatred agenda, calling them vile pigs with Satan's disease, it only made more people fearful of the gay community and we all know that fear breeds contempt.
And I actually have Mapplethorpe hanging on my walls.   |
I don't disagree. But I just don't think it had taken hold in a way that would influence the decisions made by the urban living sophisticates of the time. They had ditched their hometowns and bolted for the culture and fast pace of the cities. That wave of neo-con barbarism rose up fast in the bible belt and rural areas, but then again, it was never far below the surface in those places anyway.
I hope that piece of art is a close up of a flower or something and doesn't involve an African American man in a suit.
