I hadn't - it was one of 'the things we have now that we didn't then'. Then, soc.bi and assorted mailing lists. Now...

I also didn't mention more of the other positive changes (eg legal ones.)

But I think you're wrong about the funding streams: I reckon there's more spent on sexual health promotion for men-who-have-sex-with-men now than then. It just goes almost entirely on gay men now.