Goth is conservative.
Not necessarily in the MAGA/Alt-Right/Christian-Nationalist sense. More so in an Addams Family way.
As I've lost taste for Goth/Industrial, not so much the music, but the "scene" itself, I've noticed behavioral patterns.
Goths care about preservation, chasing a canon, above all else. It's a subculture that's based around very rigid music genres and aesthetics, not very friendly towards evolution.
The temperament of "goths" can be broken down into these categories:
Stoic, aloof, melancholic, emotionally closed off, cliquish, egotistical.
Goth spaces loathe whimsy, playfulness, anything colorful. That's why they have such a bone-to-pick with "e-girls," though they use a smokescreen argument of appropriation of their aesthetic/subculture and under the guise of worrying that e-girls will create an incorrect depiction to the mundane of what a Goth is (I still don't understand why they care what the mundane would think anyway. And if a mundane person is curious about what Goth is, if the only resource they can think of using is social media/TikTok/Pinterest, they're hopeless to begin with. Make people work for it).
Goth clubs hate the "party girl" vibe. Some Goths may LOOK extreme with makeup & attire, but they're basically the Munsters or Addams Family in demeanor.
Sexuality vs that subculture has been something amusing for me to look further into, from the outside in. It's not unusual for Goth clubs to have Fetish/Kink nights. But attending those nights, it's very heavily skewed for heterosexual couples, or occasionally gay cis men (drag/male go-go dancers etc). Those spaces are super monogamous, or if two women are flirting with each other, a man always assumes it's for him to gawk at and possibly "join in."
The music itself is very heterosexual and gender role enforcing (just listen to any Gothic Rock song and take a shot for every lyrics that has a male singer singing the word "She").
I would argue that social justice, as in the terminally online, 2014 Tumblr era variety, is conservative, or at least authoritarian. Goths love to police what others should/shouldn't wear in current year, as ironic is that is. "White people shouldn't have dreads, that's not your natural hair texture," (Clumsily realizing that if that is true, then weirdo arguments could be made about Goth being a Eurocentric/Anglo-Saxon subculture that belongs to people from the UK only), "You have to believe *insert e-Leftist maximalist position here* or you're a fascist!" This ilk also claims to be all about Trans rights, except when a trans person doesn't want to necessarily be called 'trans,' lives mostly stealth, or doesn't like the "T4T" "Grippysock" "Blahaj" terminally-online "queer culture" stereotypes. Goth has really been captured by terminally online political ideologies, and it's still no surprise that things are starting to tilt in the other extreme direction with Goths Against Cancel Culture (the far-right, anti-trans, FB group). Policing what a person can wear, how a person can express their sexuality (not not express), bullying them into maximalist positions, is authoritarian.