Things got better in the 90s under Clinton, but even then, he passed DOMA and DADT, so things weren’t so great. We could name every lesbian movie, out musician, out athlete etc. There were few gay characters on TV and most were men and most were white and almost all were the butt of the joke. Watch the documentary “How to Survive a Plague” to get a flavor of the time. Lesbian and bi women were for the most part invisible with the AIDS epidemic taking much of the national coverage. Bi men were treated even worse during this time. There was a lot of AIDS hysteria and homophobia as a result. The AIDS epidemic painted the gay community monolithically as young gay men (and often those featured were white) who were dying and should be avoided.
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