@DivineKestrel yep, 100%. How quickly people have forgotten the intense anti-gay culture across the US. In the late 90s through mid-2000s the F word (not fuck) was still in TONS of popular media. Hell, when my daughter was born *just 10 years ago* there was a lesbian couple in our birth class that were not allowed to legally marry, and the non-birth parent had to adopt the baby. In “liberal” California! I sometimes wish I was twenty and transitioning now, but rural northeast in the 90s? No way.