Anybody seen “THe Lavender Scare” last night? It so enlightened me so much. Gays were treated awfully sixty years ago.
If you think sixty years ago was bad - look into earlier centuries.
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It is part of a series, last night I watched "The Stonewall Rebellion". At one point Jerry Falwell appeared on the screen and I started both the dog & myself by screaming "F7CK YOU" twice.....
In terms of social stigma and needing to be in the closet about who we are, atheists and agnostics are often in the same place as gays were back in the mid part of the last century.