Here is a fun question...
If sexuality is fluid, wouldn't it also be generally true that there were exponentially less people that were identifying and living as homosexuals a century ago?
Monogamy, heterosexuality, etc., these are all social constructs... So, too, is any other sexuality: it is formed by people participating in the
community story-telling of gender & sexual norms. Just as how people can get sucked into all manner of behaviors that are alien to us now, why should we assume that there were very large groups of sexual minorities back then..? Wouldn't it be the case that our shift in the collective consciousness and deconstruction of past social norms has generated more alternative sexuality?
Of course, we would have people on the (bogus?) Kinsey scale that would still be same gender attracted, but a significant amount of those would be able to acquire heterosexual tastes and at least live as conflicted straight people...
Hong Wu wrote:The LGBT community has historically been targeted for a long time. If we owe other marginalized communities reparations for their past victimization, does the same logic dictate that we owe LGBT people reparations?
I am waiting for there to now be talk of reparations for fat kids and ugly people...