[Kye]

There's a possibly made up story about Gene Roddenberry's introduction to gay Star Trek fanfic. His only issue was all the zipping and unzipping. There are no zippers in the future.

>> "No, what you’re really saying but you might not realize you are is that you don’t like the queer/lgbt & sex-positive spaces that form in fandoms and which are less interested,conversely, in your judgement of them."

I don't know if you've seen The Fandom, but it covers the furry split out of the anime fandom over the queer stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv0QaTW3kEY

We're probably better off for having been given a reason to grow bigger than we could have inside another fandom, but the reasons were still clear, and not much has changed about outsider response except their voices have gotten smaller relative to growing acceptance.