Some in the LGBTQetc. movement seem to believe everyone everywhere is performing drag, so to speak. Identity is fluid, and we choose what we want to be, so our clothing is always a costume and every action is performative. I think this is wrong, but not diametrically opposed to reality.
Many people do seem to treat life as a performance where they need to project a specific image. It has no bearing on reality, but it reveals their perceptions of reality to the world. School cliques, leftist marchers, and neo-Nazis all reveal they seek approval and validation externally. Or am I off the mark completely?
Throughout history, masks have been a means of survival in a society that labels everything. Thank goodness we’re not living in the days of the Inquisition, because the LGBTQ PLUS label certainly wouldn’t exist.
They didn't even like the label of "protestant" or "Lutheran," but at the time, any threat to the religious/political status quo was deemed treasonous.
Historically, the Jews were hated in part because their religious allegiance was outside the intertwined structure of church and state, and extended beyond the borders of the feudal societies in which they lived. We see that as a generally good thing now, but then, it was subversive, and authoritarians hate any hint of subversion.