As a queer teen in the nineties one reason I absolutely did join online communities full of predatory men was that the options for healthy, out in the open identity exploration had been so thoroughly stifled. Section 28 is not at sole fault, one bigotry among many, but has a lot to answer for.

“Full of” is over selling it, sure. But ask millennial gay men about their early sexual experiences, and you’d better have brought your best clutching pearls.