I think a lot of people have always only accepted “normal” gays and lesbians. You know, the ones that don’t “push it on your face” and just “look normal”. The more we pushed for freedom of expression, the more people felt comfortable coming out as gender fluid, non binary, trans, ace, the more these bigots started coming out as “against the alphabet”.

So my theory is not so much that acceptance changed, but our stardards changed and we demand more.