About 20-something years ago I observed that younglings coming out often had a pendulum swing to an extreme stereotype (ie. archetypal twink or looks queen), and then the pendulum would swing back and forth and back and forth and they'd sort of settle somewhere in the middle between who they were and an archetype they thought they should be. I have observed the same with young people getting enculturated into professions (medical students learning to be doctors can become an absolute stereotype) or other social groups (some gangs and cults force a compliance to archetype, via violent crimes or extreme commitment behaviours, you decide which is which, to cement the person's identity and shift it into being a member of a group). It's absolutely a case that these people are dipping their toes into the water of their identity and over time are integrating membership in the new group into their core; they're negotiating a dialectic of I-ness, vs We's, the We's being the metaphorical voices of our social groups which often swamp our sense of personal identity in favour of compliance with the group.

I refer to it as the pendulum effect because it can be quite a dramatic swing between two (or more) poles as people learn who *they* are as opposed to who they think they ought to be.