Actually, it's been interesting how Captain America fandom is exposing the way that even that fairly recent past has been hidden by the way 'history' is taught. The past has been made up like a theme park made safe for Dick and Jane from their suburb.

Just as it is dangerous to misunderstand the Shoah, to think there was something peculiar that caused it leaves us in danger to walk that same path whapping historiography with Progress... leaves us patting ourselves on the back just getting back to where someones been before.

Now, considering how leery schools are about race in history, how does sexuality take a more accurate shape? Funny the things Steve Rogers growing up in a Red Light district leads to.