I don't believe they did lack the freedoms to do anything they wanted that wasn't illegal. I just looked it up, they decriminalised homosexuality in 1968 in Canada. I'm betting dollars to donuts homosexual men and women could do what they liked and not get hassled by the man.
Perhaps they may have had bathhouses raided and what not, but anything behind closed doors or done without a big show of it im betting the reaction was "meh".
This 'stuff' has always existed, the exception was of course everyone and his dog in corporate land didnt feel the need to talk about the fact that some humans find their same sex attractive, EVERY PHUQQING YEAR for a WHOLE MONTH, as if it's earth shattering news. Or marching down a street naked (thats the toronto lookatmeeee parade) and waving around glittery dildos and men in BDSM doggy gear on their hands and knees. It's the tackiness. Would one have a hetrosexual audience event parade in a public main street, sponsored by some kinda 'taboo sex show 2021' with dildo stands, half naked men and women making out, simu sex and bondage women walking around? Oh no wait...those are inside, for adults only, tickets only events. Hmmm...what a novel concept. Overt sexuality being kept out of view of children.
I know what the alphabet pressure groups would typically retort to that: that it isnt about 'awareness' it's to normalise it and to end 'prejudice and bigotry'. Well, okay...whatever. Im not sure its Toronto Dominion's job to announce on top of rooftops (or, usually, in their windows) that "HEY EVERYONE, WE REALLY WANT TO TELL YOU THAT SOME MEN LIKE TO SUCK DICK AND SOME WOMEN LIKE TO EAT PUSSY AND YOU REALLY SHOULD BE OKAY WITH THAT".
Of course, they don't actually put that in the windows, but the fact that they are talking about what some humans find attractive instead of saying "hey open our cool new savings account' is beyond me.
Last time I checked, having my money counted out by a lisping camp man or a gruff butch woman didn't make any difference to said money, as long as its correct. I dont stand there and ask if they happen to find the same sex attractive, and they dont ask me if I like X or Y sex. Because....ITS A BANK.
Stop talking about sex big corp, hetro or homo. Its weird, cringy, embarrasing and awkward. Pronouns are irrelevant on goddam FRUIT LOOPS.
(oh wait...irony...they picked FRUIT>>>>LOOPS)
Moreover, how can one 'normalise' something that isn't, at least statistically "normal"? Homosexual men or women are 2% or less of the population. How can one "normalise" biological phenomenon, that's charitably - a harmless quirk, to at worst an evolutionary cul de sac? Rewind just 1000 years, without modern medical scientific intervention, if the majority of men and women in the world were homosexual, we would died off a long time ago.
I don't believe they did lack the freedoms to do anything they wanted that wasn't illegal. I just looked it up, they decriminalised homosexuality in 1968 in Canada. I'm betting dollars to donuts homosexual men and women could do what they liked and not get hassled by the man.
Perhaps they may have had bathhouses raided and what not, but anything behind closed doors or done without a big show of it im betting the reaction was "meh".
This 'stuff' has always existed, the exception was of course everyone and his dog in corporate land didnt feel the need to talk about the fact that some humans find their same sex attractive, EVERY PHUQQING YEAR for a WHOLE MONTH, as if it's earth shattering news. Or marching down a street naked (thats the toronto lookatmeeee parade) and waving around glittery dildos and men in BDSM doggy gear on their hands and knees. It's the tackiness. Would one have a hetrosexual audience event parade in a public main street, sponsored by some kinda 'taboo sex show 2021' with dildo stands, half naked men and women making out, simu sex and bondage women walking around? Oh no wait...those are inside, for adults only, tickets only events. Hmmm...what a novel concept. Overt sexuality being kept out of view of children.
I know what the alphabet pressure groups would typically retort to that: that it isnt about 'awareness' it's to normalise it and to end 'prejudice and bigotry'. Well, okay...whatever. Im not sure its Toronto Dominion's job to announce on top of rooftops (or, usually, in their windows) that "HEY EVERYONE, WE REALLY WANT TO TELL YOU THAT SOME MEN LIKE TO SUCK DICK AND SOME WOMEN LIKE TO EAT PUSSY AND YOU REALLY SHOULD BE OKAY WITH THAT".
Of course, they don't actually put that in the windows, but the fact that they are talking about what some humans find attractive instead of saying "hey open our cool new savings account' is beyond me.
Last time I checked, having my money counted out by a lisping camp man or a gruff butch woman didn't make any difference to said money, as long as its correct. I dont stand there and ask if they happen to find the same sex attractive, and they dont ask me if I like X or Y sex. Because....ITS A BANK.
Stop talking about sex big corp, hetro or homo. Its weird, cringy, embarrasing and awkward. Pronouns are irrelevant on goddam FRUIT LOOPS.
(oh wait...irony...they picked FRUIT>>>>LOOPS)
Moreover, how can one 'normalise' something that isn't, at least statistically "normal"? Homosexual men or women are 2% or less of the population. How can one "normalise" biological phenomenon, that's charitably - a harmless quirk, to at worst an evolutionary cul de sac? Rewind just 1000 years, without modern medical scientific intervention, if the majority of men and women in the world were homosexual, we would died off a long time ago.