Making Progress Backwards.(gay liberation movement)

Free Inquiry | June 22, 2001| | Copyright

The power of the State has been used as a bludgeon against gay people since at least the High Middle Ages. The irony is that today, as toleration of homosexuality is growing, leaders of the gay rights movement seem to be saying: Now it's our turn.

Gay activists of yesteryear demanded that government get out of the bedroom. Today a new generation of gay leaders is inviting government back in. The political program of the first activists centered around a campaign to legalize homosexual relations between consenting adults. Their message to governments everywhere was ...

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