[giraffe_lady]

> some/many of the young LGBTQ+ people are against learning from their elders.

Well almost a complete generational cohort of their elders is simply missing. They died of aids in the 80s and 90s.

[moralestapia]

No, they didn't. At least look at the data before making such a bigoted statement.

[indrora]

Yes, we did lose a generational cohort.

There is a reason that the quilt is so large[1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2012/06/27/155868611/pieces-of-aids-quil...

[aipatselarom]

100k out of 200 million (US)? Out of 5 billion (worldwide)?

The flu makes us lose five "generational cohorts" every year, then.

[t-writescode]

Intersectionality.

100k out of *how many out homosexual individuals during that era in the area being studied*?

And it's not just raw numbers, either. It's how many lives / families were impacted in this unique way.

To add, it's also 100k that were almost entirely in a single demographic that was explicitly and implicitly being harmed by those in power during that era.

[t-writescode]

I want to add more. The whole “30 is gay death” expression, I bet, especially since it’s not really a thing anymore, was greatly influenced by there being very few gay people over 30. Because the rest were dead.

[moralestapia]

>Intersectionality.

Nah, just elementary school Math.

It was around 1%, a considerable morbidity but still very far from losing "a complete generational cohort".

[giraffe_lady]

Hey btw I absolutely did mean "a generational cohort of lgbtq people" not the broader total population. Which would make no sense, so I assumed no one would interpret my meaning that way. Thanks for calling me a bigot and then starting a fight with these other people about it though.