Almost fad like to a point. Not that, that is a negative, but their community is also discovering a way to describe themselves as a group and as individuals - but they all have one thing in common, being ostracized by the straight community and that includes the denial of civil rights. A lot of push back by the LGTBQ community in general to the politics of America and the self-righteous bigots who push an anti-LGTBQ agenda. Face it, a large swath of America is not very inclusive to the point of real hard line discrimination against LGTBQ.