My friends in Seattle are panicking about reversals to anti-discrimination protections and I nearly got socked at a bar when I said that ENDA and marriage were the worst things that ever happened to the gays.
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Now days if you say something like ENDA de-fanged the queers because they are no longer force to live outside the bounds of a racist, sexist, colonizing machine people look at you like your nuts. With marriage and ENDA the community was no longer a locus of struggle any longer.
I get how it sucks to lose that liberationist wedge but gay marriage is also one less anti-discrimination policy to bludgeon the left with ("why x when we don't even have y yet")
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Not to mention earlier compromises with the moral majority, roughly 1970-1990, that we're not supposed to talk about
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the lawyers and rich fags were pushing it because of property rights, pure and simple but they sold it to everyone else as health care and immigration rights. It wasn't about what it was about. We've been getting married for years by Buddhists monks and rouge Christians.
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Also—as you pointed out about Seattle anxiety about rights: it is STILL weaponized as a wedge issue now more than before.
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