You've been sold a particular story about the gay rights movement.

The abridged version goes something like this.

Gay and queer people were oppressed by a legal system that forced repressive

Christian sexual standards on society and persecuted them unfairly

for simply loving the men and women they loved.

Somewhere in the 1960s a movement emerged from the sexual revolution galvanized by the famous

Stonewall riots and gay rights was born. It overcame resistance in the 1970s and

persevered through the disaster of AIDS in the 1980s before finally achieving

public acceptance sometime in the 1990s.

In the mid-2010s, homosexuals declared a triumphant victory when the US and the UK

legalized gay marriage.

All that was left to do now was spread the virtue of tolerance throughout the entire world.

Tragically, gay rights has now gone too far.

I mean, it was all well and good when they just wanted to love one another

and get married legally, but now it's targeting children and it's

been co-opted by the trans movement and now we're beyond the pale.

Where are the days of respectable gay rights heroes like Harvey Milk and Larry Kramer?

The solution requires that we return to a sensible, even conservative, dare I say, moment in the gay rights movement that resembles

something like the 90s but with gay marriage still intact.

This story is honestly compelling. It works off the archetypal narrative that fits all of the civil rights movements of the 20th century.

If you know it, you recognize the formula straight away because you have been

have been conditioned to respond positively to it, conditioned even from birth.

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