The 80s aka /history/ general

>>7826907
>I can hardly imagine a more alienating time for gays in all of human history.
Gays are killed or jailed in a lot of middle eastern countries.

>>7828736
Yeah but the silver lining is that keeping the culture underground encourages monogamy. The Middle East has some of the lowest HIV rates in the world.

The 80s in the US though, for gays? Drugs everywhere, hypergamy everywhere, disease everywhere, obnoxious political activists everywhere. Your homosexual activities might have been legal in many states by then, but the public still hated you just like in the Middle East. The only difference is that the gay community in America offered no social capital or wholesomeness of any kind. You were quite literally alone.

>>7826907
Yeah, I'm old enough and the 80's was a time of huge expansion for a gay culture. Artists like Elton John and David Bowie were open about their sexuality. Much of the Technopop music (Depeche Mode, Petshop Boys, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Culture Club, etc.) was by gay musicians. Straights and gays were mixing in discos. Yeah, AIDS was a big bummer but much of the freedom that you younger folks enjoy now comes from the 80's.

>>7831282
>Straights and gays were mixing in discos.
Color me surprised. I guess everything wasn't all doom and gloom.

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Personally fascinated with early gay history esp. the 80's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRZwT3Ne40g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0qfFbtIj5w

btw anyone ever seen Nostalgia Chick's deconstruction of RENT? one of my favorite videos on the subject

I'm obsessed with the eighties but I know it would have been such hell for me to have lived back then. so i'm fairly happy just loving the music and fashion from afar.

it did generate beauty like this though-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xuz94ZIPfJk

>>7830979
Do you think there aren't any other problems in the middle east? The fact that you think that getting killed for your sexuality isn't so bad just show how little you value life. Just because you lived in the 80's doesn't mean you had to abide by all the stereotypes.

>>7826907
I was born in 82.
The 80s were my early childhood so they were fucking awesome to me, but I didn't find out what "gay" actually meant until the early 90s (thanks Oprah!).

>Share your stories...
ok
>be dumb little faggot
>have huge crush on two of my guy friends but don't even know what a crush is so just confused about my feelings
>tackle and hug them a lot and be really annoying
>they don't like me very much
>whatever
>watch awesome horror movies, play nintendo, build blanket/cushion forts and crawl around behind/under and jump on/off the furniture pretending to be Indiana Jones
>ride bikes all over town/go to the park by myself/with friends without supervision because adults aren't all fucking insane and overprotective
>have kid-urban-legend about the evil pedophile in town and every time we see an old man we pretend its him and ride our bikes away as fast as possible while screaming that he is going to get us