@eris Gay people had it really hard in for a really long time.
There are many sad stories about what was done to gays. Famously, Alan Turing committed suicide after being chemically castrated in the UK despite being a hero who helped win the second world war. Gay people or lesbians would get together in secret clubs so they could have a little space where they could be themselves, but it was at great risk. If the police found these clubs, they would make a great fanfare of parading the "perverts" out, making sure the press got plenty of photos, publishing their names and exactly what they were accused of. For many of those people, their lives would be ruined. There were blacklists such that if anyone even gave the slightest impression that they might secret be gay or a lesbian, their careers, their social lives, their everything would be over. They might even face prison.
In 1969 in Greenwich village, it happened yet again, but for some reason it was the bridge too far. An event that would go down in history as "The Stonewall Riots" would occur, where the gay community there would fight back against the police and took over the area. For the first time, they were liberated. They had a space they could be free, and they expressed themselves as gay as they possibly could. These riots were considered to be a turning point in gay rights.
A lot of straight people ask even today, "Why are there gay pride parades?" or "Why do they have to act so stereotypically gay in those parades?". What they don't realize is that the absurd outlandish expression of their status as a gay person is a reaction to a century of being forced underground, being silenced, being under threat of losing everything just for being themselves. Today there's a lot of younger gay and lesbian people who don't understand it either because being gay has been accepted as long as they've been alive and those younger people are much more like everyone else.
That's the answer to your question. If you want to know who to blame for freedom being used like this, blame the people who just had to make it taboo, just had to silence people, just had to make it a threat that could destroy someone's life. This is an expression of people who have been oppressed, expressing their freedom in absurd ways. I think you might be surprised to find that a lot of them aren't actually racist or sexist or homophobic or transphobic, they're just sick and tired of being held at gunpoint for year after year after year.
Now I know you're probably scoffing while reading this, going "come on, you're seriously comparing oppression for being gay to trying to make the world safer for minorities?", and if you are, the congratulations: You feel exactly like the conservative majority might have in 1969 looking at a bunch of sexual deviants who were violating the bible's teachings did. You're in the moral majority, there's no question.
The human spirit doesn't care, people want to be free no matter what that looks like, and will tend to overcorrect after a period when they are repressed. For an apolitical example, look at when kids get to live on their own for the first time after living under their parents roof, or when they turn 21 after being kept away from alcohol their entire lives. They'll drink crazy amounts and get in trouble, or they'll live in crazy ways and get in trouble to get it out of their systems, even if they're otherwise good kids who are responsible afterwards.
There are many sad stories about what was done to gays. Famously, Alan Turing committed suicide after being chemically castrated in the UK despite being a hero who helped win the second world war. Gay people or lesbians would get together in secret clubs so they could have a little space where they could be themselves, but it was at great risk. If the police found these clubs, they would make a great fanfare of parading the "perverts" out, making sure the press got plenty of photos, publishing their names and exactly what they were accused of. For many of those people, their lives would be ruined. There were blacklists such that if anyone even gave the slightest impression that they might secret be gay or a lesbian, their careers, their social lives, their everything would be over. They might even face prison.
In 1969 in Greenwich village, it happened yet again, but for some reason it was the bridge too far. An event that would go down in history as "The Stonewall Riots" would occur, where the gay community there would fight back against the police and took over the area. For the first time, they were liberated. They had a space they could be free, and they expressed themselves as gay as they possibly could. These riots were considered to be a turning point in gay rights.
A lot of straight people ask even today, "Why are there gay pride parades?" or "Why do they have to act so stereotypically gay in those parades?". What they don't realize is that the absurd outlandish expression of their status as a gay person is a reaction to a century of being forced underground, being silenced, being under threat of losing everything just for being themselves. Today there's a lot of younger gay and lesbian people who don't understand it either because being gay has been accepted as long as they've been alive and those younger people are much more like everyone else.
That's the answer to your question. If you want to know who to blame for freedom being used like this, blame the people who just had to make it taboo, just had to silence people, just had to make it a threat that could destroy someone's life. This is an expression of people who have been oppressed, expressing their freedom in absurd ways. I think you might be surprised to find that a lot of them aren't actually racist or sexist or homophobic or transphobic, they're just sick and tired of being held at gunpoint for year after year after year.
Now I know you're probably scoffing while reading this, going "come on, you're seriously comparing oppression for being gay to trying to make the world safer for minorities?", and if you are, the congratulations: You feel exactly like the conservative majority might have in 1969 looking at a bunch of sexual deviants who were violating the bible's teachings did. You're in the moral majority, there's no question.
The human spirit doesn't care, people want to be free no matter what that looks like, and will tend to overcorrect after a period when they are repressed. For an apolitical example, look at when kids get to live on their own for the first time after living under their parents roof, or when they turn 21 after being kept away from alcohol their entire lives. They'll drink crazy amounts and get in trouble, or they'll live in crazy ways and get in trouble to get it out of their systems, even if they're otherwise good kids who are responsible afterwards.