This is great. As a very conservative orthodox Catholic I think there's a lot we disagree on. But you're right about this weird creeping homogenized "normality" that's suffusing everything these days. It's not just gay bars. Some kind of corporatized conformity is leaching into everything: Film, music, restaurants, housing, retail, education, the Internet...it's all kind of blending together as one big blanket of indistinguishable amalgamated normalness. It's very weird and I'm not sure if it can be fixed, or how.
This is great. As a very conservative orthodox Catholic I think there's a lot we disagree on. But you're right about this weird creeping homogenized "normality" that's suffusing everything these days. It's not just gay bars. Some kind of corporatized conformity is leaching into everything: Film, music, restaurants, housing, retail, education, the Internet...it's all kind of blending together as one big blanket of indistinguishable amalgamated normalness. It's very weird and I'm not sure if it can be fixed, or how.
Three comments.
1. When I read the caption "Gay bars, gay bars, gay bars. All great. Except Nellie's. Nellies is terrible." on public transit, I audibly cackled.
2. (Editorial comment) Cisgender is the proper form.
3. We'll get you using the word queer soon enough. I concur writing out LGBTQIA+ is clunky.