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You put it into way better terms than I would, well done. That's really why I oppose the deification of homosexuals: because it's inherently subversive and deconstructive.This is a consequence of the "war on heteronormativity," which in turn was a result of the AIDS crisis.
The 1980s AIDS crisis made that obvious that the 1970s gay rights movement, which claimed that gays just wanted to live normal lives, was based on a lie, because homosexuals uniformly reacted with outrage at the suggestion that, maybe, since a deadly disease was spreading like wildfire from one butthole to the next, they shut down the bathhouses, cut back on the group sex, and anonymous barebacking. Gays couldn't be bothered to take even a tiny step toward preserving their own lives; nope, it was we normal people who needed to invent some kind of heroic medical treatment to save the gays, and we were going to pay for it, too.
The problem is, as long as everyone agrees that having anonymous, unprotected buttsex with thousands of men is self-destructive and immoral, it is impossible to blame anyone except homosexuals for their own AIDS deaths. Enter the attack on "heteronormativity." Oddly enough, homosexuals can be pretty insightful about how deeply social conventions are intertwined with reproduction. So, in the 1990s, "deconstructing" pretty much all of our morals, including companionate marriage, the nuclear family, social censure of promiscuity, children being raised by their parents, etc, really kicked into high gear. By the late 1990s, the coolest universities were all promoting "queer theory," and by 2010, this was every university.
Part of the destruction of heteronormativity was encouraging public fetish display. Homosexuals had been doing this for decades at the Folsom Street Festival, which most normal people found revolting. Out of queer theory, we got "let your freak flag fly," "everybody's a little bit queer," and "don't yuck somebody else's yum." This led to Yale Sex Week and copycat events on other campuses.
So hey, why not cross-dress in public?
Throw in some gender deconstruction (which feminists enthusiastically supported, since they thought it would break down social barriers they saw as repressive), and now trooning out is a civil right.
What do you get when you tell two generations of kids with chronically low self esteem that being gay is STUNNING AND BRAVE?