Gay Inc.?

Like every community and by 'community,' I’m referring to an anthropological concept: a group united by a shared characteristic. There are people who will vote against their best interests, in our LGBT we have who will vote for their interests before that of the community.

Andrew Sullivan represents everything wrong with the gay rights movement

Cultural critic Marcie Bianco excavates Sullivan's anti-trans, anti-left assertions in The New York Times that people are being forced to transition to erase gay people and that the Progress Flag excludes anyone not on the far left.

The Advocate

By Marcie Bianco

July 02 2025

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But even I was not prepared for the gobsmacking monstrosity of Sullivan’s latest opinion piece in The New York Times. Cue the Winona Ryder looking confused meme. And then I got furious, both because of the authority he exacts as a respected gay spokesperson in the mainstream, and also because he is bestowed this authority by endorsing the worst kind of politics that is the antithesis of the politics we need for our collective liberation and care.

In “How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way” (appearing in the Sunday print issue under the less inflammatory headline,“Gay People Won. So Why Does It Feel As if We’re Losing?”), Sullivan argues that the gay rights movement should focus on fortifying civil rights won and “winding down as a movement that had achieved its core objectives.”

It is all gay male focused...

That those of us in the LGBTQ+ community aren’t content with these gains is ungracious, in Sullivan’s eyes. Even worse is our willful “liberal shift to the ‘social justice’ left.” And if the scare quotes fail to scare you, Sullivan emphasizes that this social justice agenda includes “a new and radical gender revolution,” consisting of the eradication of the gender binary and, in his absolutely batshit estimation, the end of homosexuality by forcing children to transition.

Thump, thump.

It gets worst,

Should we be surprised by Sullivan’s take? No. We know that assimilation is not liberation. We know that gay marriage has not prevented gender-based discrimination and violence and that its glorified 1,138 rights and benefits mostly serve wealthy home-owning parents and not most of the LGBTQ+ community — one in five of whom are living in poverty. Gay marriage, furthermore, hasn’t stopped queer folks from being abducted by ICE agents and deported. We know, as Audre Lorde told us, that none of us live single-issue lives (meaning, in this context, that not all LGBTQ+ people are upper-middle-class cisgender white men living in the protective gay mecca of Provincetown). And we know, as bell hooks told us, that none of us are “equals in the white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure,” and that equality-mindset gays crave just enough change for their societal inclusion and benefit but perceive any more capacious social justice effort as a threat to their newfound acceptance and status in the social order. As I argued in Breaking Free and elsewhere, the equality so deeply cherished by Sullivan and his ilk of Mattachine Society-revering assimilationist gays isn’t getting the job done. Equality will not free us.

Back after the Stonewall Uprising the upper crust of Gay Inc. didn't want any flaming gays, no trans people. They only wanted gays and lesbian who can "pass" in society, listen to Sylvia Rivera speech from the first post-Stonewall Pride event (Christopher Street Liberation Day Rally, June 24, 1973) ...

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 It was those in the audience who wrote us off, who booed us off the stage so that they could control the narrative.