I read an article about conservative gay men breaking with the queer movement and the „LGB“ Alliance as older generations fearing safe spaces vanishing, and a queer “alphabet” so broad it risks losing focus. Some argue “gender identity” sidelines same-sex attraction. Others point to migration from homophobic cultures, which reintroduced risks they thought were gone.
It made me reflect on my own answer about identity. For me, it’s about connection in the moment, not gender. If I vibe with someone, that’s what matters. Why limit myself...
In cities, younger people care less about labels. It feels freer: love who you love, move as you are. Elders needed safe spaces because hiding was survival. For many today, that trauma isn’t the same.
There’s progress. But maybe society is also shifting in ways that make protection necessary again — not just through policies or space, but through deeper empathy. Maybe the task isn’t choosing labels or none, but learning to hold both: as tools for visibility, and as doors into something more human beneath.
So: are labels (not just in sexuality) a safeguard, or do they now hold us back from seeing ourselves as one human race?
