At least not where I lived, in Chicago.
I have the image of chicago being very black, but I'm sure that's not exactly true for the suburbs. Do you think that played any role in the low acceptance of homosexuality for you growing up?
This "community" nonsense around what we like sexually needs to stop. It's gross. It protects those that deserve nothing, and endangers those who haven't lived much of a life at all.
Why quit a winning strategy? Every regime needs it commissars, its secret police, its enforcers.
The myth of calling these people a community allows them to leverage being a kind of celebrated class (among the left wing loyalists) to lead charges against everyone unwilling to submit (including small time bakers).
If they more honestly wore their secret police uniforms it's harder to do their sting operations. They're not even officially employed and therefor hard to point to any accountability.
Like I'm sure
@ryu289 is not on the payroll. In fact, by being organised around sexual desires, there is simultaneously a kind of passionate fervor behind it and the fear that every engagement of that passion will be curbed if they "lose the culture war". And considering the connection to anything long term (multigenerational) is rare for sexual deviants, it's all about the materialistic here and now, the next orgasm.
So yeah, what's the incentive for the "community" to give up their PR shield? And lose their power? Sure we might end up saving some kids, but what about my discord chats with that cute 16 year old?
And be more truthful about history, how homosexuality wasn't the kind of death sentence it previously was? Like Turing, who lived in a time where it wasn't accepted to be openly gay. British intelligence was long aware of his homosexuality and put extra tabs on him for the risk this made him to be blackmailed by foreign spies.
But it wasn't until he reported a break in crime and autisticly admitted to homosexual relations in a public, legal document, that he forced the authorities hand at responding to it.