Queer and non-binary identities framed as having been trendy but now seen as risky or in retreat
The article links the decline of queer identity expression among youth to political backlash and social risk, implying a cyclical, fashion-driven rise and fall rather than enduring liberation.
“The progression has been to get more and more conventionally within your gender binary. And what that means is that bisexuality, any kind of fluidity, falls away – because that’s risky now.”
