The Christian Right Is Winning Its War on LGBTQ People
A chilling wave of state laws and a case study
An unprecedented wave of state laws is destroying LGBTQ equality in the U.S. in ways almost nobody imagined possible even a year or two ago. Trans people and gay people are in the crosshairs, with teens hit the hardest. Is the Christian right winning? Serious commentators suggest they are. I’m going to explore that and present a case study to show you how one large public school system doesn’t even need new laws to shame and harm LGBTQ students. The Christians running that school are winning their war. But first …
How quaint does this feel?
Gay conservatives like James Kirchick and Andrew Sullivan were busy proclaiming only recently that the fight for gay rights was over, that we live in a “post-gay” world, that we should stop pretending we have anything left to fight for. Both of them did so while ignoring marginalized people like gay and bi folks who don’t live in wealthy, white liberal havens or who don’t choose to ape upper-middle-class cis/straight lifestyles.
Most pointedly, they ignored transgender people, who have always been critically bound up with the struggle for LGBTQ liberation. Recently, notorious gay transphobes like Sullivan and Katie Hertzog have taken to Twitter…
