Gay journalist says LGBTQ movement has gone from civil rights success to madness

Gay journalist Andrew Sullivan said Thursday that the LGBTQ movement is losing ground in America because it has become “radicalized.”In a New York Times guest essay, Sullivan marveled at how the gay rights movement traded a legacy of civil rights successes for radical ideas that are turning off modern-day Americans, like trying to rewrite the rules of biology and advocating for child transgender treatment — all the while demonizing Americans who aren’t on board with those ideas.“Far from celebrating victory, defending the gains, staying vigilant, but winding down as a movement that had achieved its core objectives — including the end of H.I.V.in the United States as an unstoppable plague — gay and lesbian rights groups did the opposite.

Swayed by the broader liberal shift to the ‘social justice’ left, they radicalized,” he wrote.Sullivan detailed how the gay rights movement changed for the worse after winning most of the victories for gay, lesbian and transgender civil rights in the past few decades.It became “a new and radical gender revolution” that he said focused “on ending what activists saw as the oppression of the sex binary, which some critical gender and queer theorists associated with ‘White supremacy,’” dissolving the “natural distinctions between men and women in society,” and replacing “biological sex with ‘gender identity’ in the law and culture.”He also said modern LGBTQ activists redefined homosexuality “not as a neutral fact of the human condition but as a liberating ideological ‘queerness’ meant to subvert and ‘queer’ language, culture and society in myriad different ways.”Sullivan added that because of this shift, the words “gay and lesbian” in LGBT “all but disappeared” as it became “L.G.B.T.Q., then L.G.B.T.Q.+, and more letters and characters kept being added: L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ or 2S.L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ … The plus sign referred to a seemingly infinite number of new niche identit...