They think they can go back to that brief window when there already was a gay and lesbian movement, but it hadn't expressly included bi and trans people. That lasted for less than half a decade IIRC, but that doesn't stop this kind of nostalgia.

They are also all respectability politics libs who believe that the nazis will leave them alone if we do not provoke them by acting too flamboyant. My non-passing ass in a pleated skirt endangers their false sense of security. They think i'm drawing fire to their position, that they'll be left alone if they assimilate enough.