@mina Yup. At least ten percent of my high school class of 1980 came out in the years since graduating, and those are just the ones I know about. Queerness was never rare.

That said, back then I also know plenty of cishet people who were absolutely oblivious to it all around them. A guy at college once said, “there aren’t any gay people at this school” and I just looked around the room mentally counting plenty of them.