Another Pride Month, and the annual celebration keeps morphing into something fewer gay people can be proud of. Instead of equal rights under the law and marriage equality, Pride now celebrates medical transitioning to change the sex of gender-nonconforming kids and letting bio male students who identify as female dominate women’s high school and collegiate sports.
I’ve reposted my recent substack column and other takes below.
Fighting back, to reclaim our movement:
Pew has a big new survey on “LGBTQ” adults. If you want to find out what’s going on with gay and lesbian people, good luck. We are now conflated with bisexual women (half closeted and often in hetero relationships), with transgender people (with whom we have very little in common) and “queers” (a term that anyone, including heterosexuals, are invited to adopt).
The erasure of gay men and lesbians as a distinct experience and group of people is now almost complete. It was accomplished by using language to make us completely invisible – in classic postmodern fashion.
But when you do get some breakout for gays and lesbians, you find, for example, that 50 percent say they have a lot in common with straight people, compared with only 28 percent saying they have a lot in common with trans people.
So why are we in an alliance with trans people and not straights?
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2025/05/29/the-experiences-of-lgbtq-americans-today/
– Andrew Sullivan
Read on Substack