Turning Point Reached: We are winning faster than most of us thought possible

Opinion: When some of us say the LGBT movement has reached a turning point, others object. We are not finished, they say, confusing "turning point" for "end point." Of course we are not done. But to the extent equality is the goal, we are nearer the finish line than the start. Equality, however, is not everyone's goal. As the saying goes, some folks don't want a seat at the table, they want to turn the table over. These are not the violent anarchists of a century ago. Today's self-styled revolutionaries take the milder approach of crapping up city parks during ''occupy'' movement actions, protesting corporate sponsors of gay events, and picketing the Democratic National Convention. They engage in street theater while scorning the moral compromise of electoral work. Marriage equality and open military service were never priorities for the anti-assimilationists. Former National Gay and Lesbian Task Force leader Urvashi Vaid, in her 2012 book Irresistible Revolution, writes, "The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform." This elides the fact that most activists never shared her revolutionary stance. ... (more)

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