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Thanks for the ping WKB.
Four decades ago not too far from where you are I grew up knowing in the course of that time probably 500-1000 folks by name in schools neighborhoods and university or early adult life....
Of those maybe 10 I can look back now and identify as homosexual coming out or open or hidden...males
I’m 58
I think I know of 2 who still live
Same death rate in my wife’s gay group in Murfreesboro TN
AIDS drinking drugs and other disease wear them out...
Lesbians either butch or sanctuary ....seem to live normal life spans
A gay man’s life is not pretty