Generation Gay

The NYT Magazine has a pretty cool article on "The Gay Generation Gap", which talks about some of the issues that younger gay men have been sniping at older ones (and vice versa) about - "You're cocky and entitled, you're sexually careless, you heedlessly take advantage of the benefits we spent our youths fighting for" vs. "You're obsessed with your own victimhood, you go on about AIDS like your parents went on about WWII, you think the only way to get anything is to get angry about it", etc.  It's interesting from a cultural perspective, but also oddly heartening - especially after watching Milk and realizing that it wasn't that long ago that being openly gay really was a serious liability.  Intergenerational sniping aside, the fact that we've gotten so far in the space of one generation is pretty astonishing in and of itself, and I only hope it continues to get better.

Generation Gay

The NYT Magazine has a pretty cool article on "The Gay Generation Gap", which talks about some of the issues that younger gay men have been sniping at older ones (and vice versa) about - "You're cocky and entitled, you're sexually careless, you heedlessly take advantage of the benefits we spent our youths fighting for" vs. "You're obsessed with your own victimhood, you go on about AIDS like your parents went on about WWII, you think the only way to get anything is to get angry about it", etc.  It's interesting from a cultural perspective, but also oddly heartening - especially after watching Milk and realizing that it wasn't that long ago that being openly gay really was a serious liability.  Intergenerational sniping aside, the fact that we've gotten so far in the space of one generation is pretty astonishing in and of itself, and I only hope it continues to get better.