According to some recently-resurfaced videos of a July 2023 Santana concert in Atlantic City, New Jersey, frontman Carlos Santana stopped in-between songs to give a spiel condemning transgender people.
Article by Consequence of Sounds reporting on Carlos Santana outing himself as a transphobe
Last few generations each started accepting different types of people that the previous generation didn’t, some stopped evolving pass that point.
It went something like
POC > LGB > T > genders
I know people of my generation mostly don’t have an issue with trans but some can’t understand the concept of other types of genders. When talking to my aunt that’s 10 years older than me she has a hard time understand trans but she would never question gay rights, when talking to my young cousins they learn about gender acceptance in school now…
At the same time, I talk to my mother who’s a last year boomer and she’s like “Whatever float your boat, as long as you’re happy with who you are then I’m happy for you!”
There was a trans positive Love Boat episode and Christine Jorgensen back in the 70s. So the acceptance was there, but the religious right had to fuck it all up.
Last few generations each started accepting different types of people that the previous generation didn’t, some stopped evolving pass that point.
It went something like
POC > LGB > T > genders
I know people of my generation mostly don’t have an issue with trans but some can’t understand the concept of other types of genders. When talking to my aunt that’s 10 years older than me she has a hard time understand trans but she would never question gay rights, when talking to my young cousins they learn about gender acceptance in school now…
At the same time, I talk to my mother who’s a last year boomer and she’s like “Whatever float your boat, as long as you’re happy with who you are then I’m happy for you!”
There was a trans positive Love Boat episode and Christine Jorgensen back in the 70s. So the acceptance was there, but the religious right had to fuck it all up.
I wonder how mainstream the acceptance was at that point compared to the 2000s though…