Many things that seem "normal" today started out as marginal: divorce, the internet, sharing a flat with friends, going to therapy, tight clothes, or living together without getting married.
They started as oddities… and ended up being the norm. And that's why this might be the best gay superpower: creating futures.
Now more than ever.
Because in times of angry people on Twitter, techno-oligarchs, dystopian threats, and environmental catastrophes, the temptation is to give up. To think that everything is getting worse. That everything has already been invented. That things are just the way they are.
But queer history, with all its wounds and fissures, seems determined to prove the opposite: that there are always creative ways to rebuild. New networks of care; kinder ways of being a man, a person, a family, and a community.
In short: the ability to imagine beautiful futures when things get a little rough.
And in that respect, allow us to puff out our chests a little. Because if there's one thing we queers know how to do, it's create beautiful things and then convince the rest of the world to want them for themselves too.