Whilst I disagree that it is or was gay (or straight, or bi, or whatever sexual orientation - as far as I can tell the community is just a slice of the broader world in that), I totally agree that the Free Software community has always been what some nowadays call "woke".

It's really just the "live and let live", "don't hurt your fellow human beings" and "share rather than hoard" principles of the community, that both make people share their work and their knowledge and be tolerant of others in those things (the intolerance is reserved for people who use the "wrong" editor or programming language!), which in the meanwhile the Identitarian Wars in the US ended up labeling "woke", maybe because over there the politicians weaponizing such matters to avoid talking about Wealth Inequality couldn't simply call it "Leftwing".