"For Some, a Sanitized Movement" in the Washington Post
provides a voice for those gays who think marriage is a sell
out:
The gay rights activists and theorists and feminists who critique the campaign from the left are the voices less often heard in the battle over gay marriage. -- [T]hey are mortified at the fate of a revolution pasteurized. They wonder what happened to championing sexual freedom and universal health care, and upending patriarchy?
Unfortunately, the article buys the false line that the gay
movement began with leftists in the 1960s, after which time
"conservatives" took advantage of the opening and moved in. Simply
not so: Many very early gay activists were either political
moderates favoring what's now termed "assimilation" or libertarians
strongly opposed to socialism and statism. True, left-leaning
radicals gained the spotlight in the '60s and '70s, but let's not
entirely rewrite history!