Astroturf Activism: How The US Government And NGOs Created “Gay Pride” From Thin Air
8th March 2025
Growing up in America through the 1980s and 1990s there was a general sense of “live and let live” among Gen X and Gen Y that truly defined the era and our notions of what a society should look like. We all knew gay people were a permanent fixture in society. For the most part nobody bothered them and they kept their gayness to themselves (and far away from children). Frankly, it was working just fine.
There were some protests and marches, but the only “individual right” straight people had that they didn’t was the right to legal marriage.
This is patently untrue. Homosexuals had exactly the same rights as heterosexuals when it came to marriage: they could marry a person of the other sex. What homosexuals did not have (and what they wanted), the right to marry someone of the same sex, was denied to heterosexuals as well. All of the handwaving in the world doesn’t affect this simple fact.