I find it interesting that contemporary culture has narrowed down terms of sexuality into the two categories of “straight” or “gay,” when during the early 20th century, there was a wide variety of terms for very different types of homosexual behavior. Wouldn’t you think that the opposite should have occurred, where there would be two categories for the topic when it was less talked about and more terms for current times where it is more of an open subject?
If straight panic refers to the anxiety that Americans feel about the changing landscape of how people identify with their sexual identities, do those who fall under the category of “them” also tend to be racist or sexist? At one point, Becker makes a statement beginning with, “Members of a naïve mainstream (which had long had the empowering luxury of ignoring what it meant to be white, male, straight, etc…).” How did the 90’s affect females and those of different ethnicities?
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