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Gay as in happy, as in gay. (Image via Netflix) THE GUARDIAN: They're calling happy, well-adjusted LGBTQs of Gen Z the, uh, Heartstopper generation.
NYT: The long, long history of the gay smear: The American penchant for associating sexual and gender nonconformity with political malice dates at least as far back as the election of 1800.
Shortly after Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams for the presidency, a pamphleteer supporting the former accused the latter of possessing a “hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.” But the mode of conspiratorial thinking that would come to characterize much of the popular discourse around homosexuality did not take off until the early 20th century.
