"As many of us saw our goals largely completed and moved on, the far left filled the void. The movement is now rhetorically as much about race and gender as it is about sexual orientation ('intersectionality'), prefers alternatives to marriage to marriage equality, sees white men as 'problematic,' masculinity as toxic, gender as fluid, and race as fundamental. They have no desire to seem 'virtually normal'; they are contemptuous of 'respectability politics'—which means most politics outside the left. Above all, they have advocated transgenderism, an ideology that goes far beyond recognizing the dignity and humanity and civil equality of trans people into a critique of gender, masculinity, femininity, and heterosexuality. 'Live and let live' became: 'If you don't believe gender is nonbinary, you're a bigot.” I would be shocked if this sudden lurch in the message didn't in some way negatively affect some straight people's views of gays."
Andrew Sullivan at New York criticizes the "shift in the tone and substance of advocacy for gay equality in recent years."
Friday, January 26, 2018
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