Disclaimer: I’m coming at this from a very American perspective.

There was a Bo Burnham song my friends liked in high school. It had a lyric that went something like “being the owner of a company that makes rape whistles / you started the company with good intentions / but now you don’t want the rates of rape to decline / because your sales rates will also decline.”

That’s kind of what it feels like looking at the left right now. They started with really noble intentions of wanting equal rights for LGB people. Then, our struggle became a massive part of their image. We’re now stuck in a situation where it really seems like they aren’t interested in just letting us be with equal rights because that curtails their “virtuous” brand. In order to prolong this, the demands are getting ever more frivolous and the gates have been thrown wide open to anyone who wants to pretend to be “queer.” Meanwhile, most of the LGB adults I know irl are just hanging out like “nah, I’m cool with being able to get married, not being able to be fired for being gay, and a pretty big shift in public opinion in our favor. Can we just chill out now?”