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[–][deleted] 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Long time reader here, first time poster...

As someone born in the 90s, wasn't the early pride marches about changing the law? Homosexuality was illegal here in Australia during the first Sydney pride march, and I am assuming it was illegal in other countries... And than there is also the laws regarding how homosexual relationships/marriages are treated in regards to their heterosexual counterparts.

The Lgb Alliance tweet here seems off to me, not that I want to be on the same side as that clout chasing asshole...

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 24 insightful - 1 fun24 insightful - 0 fun25 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They misframed it. The point is that gay rights was never about changing other people’s rights or destroying institutions, but rather to participate in existing institutions in our consensual relationships with each other. So there was no demand for a legal change as to prejudice other people.