I fear that we will the ones who end up taking the brunt of the backlash, once it inevitably comes.

Yeah. There's a real and deserved backlash against TQ+, but there's the potential that religious conservatives will use that as momentum to also attack gay rights at the same time. Society as a whole didn't believe Trump could happen even though we saw the warning signs, it's the same thing really. We take for granted that as a society we've made massive advancements for the LGB community but we have to assume that those could just as easily come under assault at some point.