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Welcome to the Quillette podcast, hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia.

Quillette is where Freethought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for

heterodox ideas and fearless commentary. You are about to hear a free preview of this

week's episode. To hear the full episode, and to get access to all our podcasts and articles,

visit us at quillette.com and click the subscribe button. And today my guest is Canadian

gay activist turned journalist Adam Zivo, whose columns appear regularly in the National Post

newspaper. Adam writes about a variety of subjects, including the Middle East,

the war in Ukraine, drug policy, and the politics surrounding LGBT activism, which is the subject

we'll be talking about today. In his most recent column, titled Canada Needs a New LGBT Movement,

Without the T, Adam argues that following the legalization

of gay marriage, many gay activists drifted away from LGBT organizations, which were then

co-opted by activists primarily interested in transgender causes and esoteric queer campaigns

that proved unpopular with the general public.

As a result, Adam argues, many of these organizations have come to disdain or even vilify gay

men and women.

Here's a quote from his article.

Cannibalized from the inside by gender radicalism, the mainstream LGBTQ movement came to insist that biological

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