So many

There are so many "marginalized" folks in this USA. So many different societies, different groups -- rarely recognized, mostly ignored.

I'm clean and sober, and have been for over 25 years. I rarely go to meetings these days -- one reason is the huge influx of religion into what was a mostly secular program way back when.

That's not the issue. Ex-drunks, ex-junkies, tend to have their own little society -- only recognized when some one wants to praise some newly sober/clean celebrity.

That's just one of the little groups mostly ignored. We also have the gun owners, various religious, hobby, and "affinity groups".

No one looks at the quilters, or scrapbookers, as a "bloc" -- but they may well be --- so, it's not just gays and lesbians that are a group. everyone belongs to various different "blocs".

As a point, look at all the Cops on line, in various quasi-military, and gun groups -- they are to a man (and woman) very anti-union, while at the very same time belomging to unions that are stronger than the much reviled teachers unions. -- strange, no?