In many past civilizations the LBGT communities were an important part of the social structure. The South Pacific Islanders acknowledged their transgender males as they dressed as females and stayed in close family groups helping to raise the next generation. Unlike our "modern" times, the past often embraced everyone as "needed" to survive into the future. We could use a lot more of that but our religious and political leaders want us dependent on them instead of each other. Most of us got along well with each other in the "old" days of Alaska because we did need each other to survive.