1950s-1990s: Queer people are excluded from mainstream spaces; create our own, alternative spaces (bars, magazines etc). Due to oppressive laws, these spaces may be partially or entirely "underground".
2000s-2010s: Queer people are now included in mainstream spaces. Stripped of a specific motivation for existence, dedicated queer spaces die off.
2020s: Amidst rising intolerance, new oppressive laws and "Mastercard", queer people are now excluded from mainstream spaces again. Dedicated/alternative queer spaces begin to re-emerge. (But in a weird and possibly mostly online way, because in a parallel development non-online spaces have been killed by high-rent blight and COVID). Depending on how bad the new laws wind up being, these spaces may turn out to be partially or entirely "underground".