And this really really strikes a chord with me, I have been known to voice similar thoughts to friends:

You know who weren’t cops? All the radicals and queers and artists and dreamers....the wider bohemian world, the actors and the drag queens and the dilettantes and the ex junkies and the current junkies, the kind of queer people who wouldn’t get caught dead getting married, the people who actually made the “old New York” of the myth into what it was. They were smart and they were funny and they were tougher than I can imagine and they were possessed of an existential commitment to the idea that life is complicated and so we shouldn’t be quick to judge.

While I always wanted equality for gay friends, I was also sad about knowing that success in that would lose a lot of them to the whole marriage, 2 1/2  kids, cottage/white picket fence and upstanding citizen territory. Death of a sub-culture, consumed by the mass.

The article was written in response the harsh backlash that a band received after an accusation of sexual harassment. The retribution was swift and devastating. 

In the era of the internet, how do fans respond? R Kelley has accusations of sexual encounter with underage girls. He still has a thriving music career. Are the fans noble and non-judgmental, or are they complicit? Bill Cosby has multiple accusations of rape. It took the words of a comedian in ignite the process that brought Cosby down.Cosby was still able to sell tickets to his shows even after the accusations came to light. Were those fans non-judgmental, or evil people willing to forgive a crime?