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Being gay isn't more popular now.
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The 60s and 70s free love movement, or just rock and roll/dancing "hedonism" had bigger barriers to break down than organized lgbtq identity movements. The simple freedom to have sex with who you wanted with criminal immunity was "the ask". There didn't need to be pride in doing it, and socially, it was still an insult even after it was legal.
Can you elaborate?
Activism for the social justice of marriage equality 90s was more unionized LG than decriminalization of 60s which was just G. Political volunteering had a genuine universal human right to it. Pride, hate speech protections, and DEI employment inclusions was activism that was more supremacist than boomers reached for. Boomers wanted freedom, but didn't need/reach for status of "equally normal" or identity power. They were happy to have big city gay bars, disco culture, or rocky horror picture show, though that blurs into gen x. The term LGBTQ is a fairly recent invention.