In 1969, US vice president Spiro Agnew called Vietnam War protesters “effete snobs.” And the 1970s “Disco Sucks” movement was, in part, rooted in homophobia and, as summarized by writer John-Manuel Andriote, “a boiling-over of testosterone from white straight men who saw disco—and the whole club scene—as threatening to their masculinity.”

I’m most often called Timmy by the people who, for various ill-defined reasons