alt Hacker NewsI have a lot of nostalgia for the pre-9/11 world too but be careful with the rose tint.
It wasn't so wonderful if you were gay, for example. AIDS was still new and scary in 1990, and society was not so accepting of that lifestyle.
I remember when I was a teen it wasn't uncommon to go to a Boston Pizza-tier restaurant and have the waiter make a quip about "not wanting to look like a fag" by ordering the same thing as the guy next to you. This was a thing into my 20s, as late as 2007 probably.
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throawaywpglib • yesterday at 7:41 PM
Its true that it wasnt as good if you were gay, and im glad that its better now.
But, its also true that it was better in many ways that affect both gay & straight people!
fragglestickcar • yesterday at 8:16 PM
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It's interesting to me that many of the comments about not romanticizing the 80's and 90's across all forums reference 'it wasn't that good if you were gay' which would be like 3-5% of the population at the time? We had a society that 95% of people would say was ideal and the only knock is that it wasn't great for a small minority versus now we have a lifestyle that is universally panned...