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".
2030s: With the advent of the Corner Pocket Technique as devised by the Genesis Collective, queers retreat to dedicated, exclusive physical spaces, accessible from dark corners and crevices by those who know the correct Words and whose hearts are the right shape
2040s: The Reawakening
2050s: The structure of reality is shredded from its underside, and queer post-human entities take over mainstream culture (which at this point is mostly centered on Disney superheroes fighting over whether to drink Coke or Pepsi). Depending on who's telling it, in many histories these events come to be see as the last days of humanity. Of course, that's mainly of academic interest, since all the important society and civilization stuff is now happening in para-real hypo-spaces, where shape and form are more a matter of social convention than physics.
2060s: The Harrowing begins
