hmm at the risk of sounding somewhat reductionist or oversimplifying, I think any attempt to analyze/discuss the modern lgbtq community that isn't somewhat rooted in an understanding of the AIDS crisis is doomed to failure

A lot of the discourse we have is so disconnected from our past that it's honestly useless and sometimes actively harmful

For example: gay marriage. I think lots of younger people assume that the fight for gay marriage was bc older gays wanted to assimilate, when in reality the issue was that people were dying alone in cold hospital rooms w/out their partners to comfort them bc they weren't married

Like the AIDS crisis deeply traumatized entire generations of our community, especially those who were poc/trans/homeless. People lost their entire communities, everyone they loved. That trauma is the bedrock of the modern movement. We can't exist without acknowledging it

So much modern day online discourse is straight up just. Nonsense. Because it has no root, it has no connection to our collective past, to the suffering of those who came before us. You can't have an effective modern analysis if that analysis has no socio-historical framework

Here are some cool historical archives/digital collections:

http://www.outhistory.org/featured 
https://oac.cdlib.org/institutions/ONE+National+Gay+and+Lesbian+Archives?descriptions=show
https://www.glbthistory.org/online-collections