I have never heard of people using the term “punk” with any connotation of “homosexual”. It’s interesting to learn that Burroughs (and perhaps a few others?) once used it that way, but I’m skeptical that that has meaningfully influenced broader common usage. “They are certainly calling on this legacy” seems like a claim that needs evidence?

That’s… Not how words work. Like, a silverfish is not a type of fish, bench dog is not a type of dog, etc.

… No?

The Wikipedia page expresses it fairly clearly in the intro paragraph:

Solarpunk is a literary, artistic, and social movement, closely related to the hopepunk movement, that envisions and works toward actualizing a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community. The “solar” represents solar energy as a renewable energy source and an optimistic vision of the future that rejects climate doomerism, while the “punk” refers to do it yourself and the countercultural, post-capitalist, and sometimes decolonial aspects of creating such a future.

Usage determines meaning, not age… if no one else picked up that meaning and ran with it, then it’s not really relevant to common usage.

Writers say all kinds of wack shit. Some of it sticks, some of it doesn’t. This one’s not really relevant to the OP’s question.

I think you are right about steampunk, but cyberpunk does have an element of an anti-authoritarian counter culture (hackers going up against tech oligarchs). And solar punk evolved from there and is more explicitly political, although more utopian and I agree there is a bit of distance in the meaning.

The original meaning is “bad, rotten” in relation to wood. From there it was applied to people as a derogatory term.

It was then presumably intentionally claimed as a badge of pride for the punk music scene, where it effectively means “anti-orthodox, anti-authority, rebellious, outsider”

It gets used in pretty diverse circumstances, many of which don’t share much meaning with the original music scene meaning. Like steampunk is basically a purely aesthetic term, with none of the political connotations.

Also reads petty similar to the sign over the front door of Auschwitz

Yeah, I’d be interested too, but I’m not interest in feeding useful information into another corporate-controlled walled garden. Especially not solarpunk content, that should be antithetical to the basic idea…

Lemmy would be good for coordinating it, but it definitely makes sense to share reviews on bookwyrm.