@mekkaokereke the trans community doesn't have much intergenerational teaching, because the few (chosen) families we have are largely within generations and the few biological families are completely outside the community

Also, the trans community likes to throw each other under buses for ideological purity (or rampant misunderstanding of terminology drift), with near zero investment in redemption

So thank you for explaining this. Honestly I think the only learning the White trans community does about surviving fascism is what we learn from Black families and Black community

@saraislet @mekkaokereke I suspect AIDS unfortunately played a large role in cutting off newer generations from accumulated wisdom, as well, since we lost so many people who would have been queer elders.

(not only that, but the fact that LGBTQ people arise in every demographic means there's different challenges in forming communities together; we need to find each other somehow, then form community, and if that community isn't already there or we don't have a model of how to build it...)

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Gay men do have intergenerational communities. I'm late Gen X. I have benefited from socializing with older gay men who were out during the 1980s. Some things I learned from them:

1) We need community organizations like choruses, motorcycle clubs, book groups, and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

2) Running these organizations is work.

3) These organizations work best when they're fun.