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DRAG QUEENS CHANTG ‘WE’RE G FOR YOUR KIDS’ HURT GAY RIGHTS
In recent years, such blunt, outrageo rhetoric om the gay left has bee pretty faiar. Two years ago, the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos released a YouTube vio which 81 of s members sang a song wh the rea: “We’ll nvert your children / Happens b by b. Groups like the San Francis Gay Men’s Chos once played an important role givg gay Amerins a posive image.
The ia of gay people as more or ls ordary people next door was ccial helpg w popular support for gay equaly, gays the ary, and, ultimately, same-sex marriage. To ce the tle of my 1993 book, most gay Amerins jt wanted “A Place at the Table.
The tle of Andrew Sullivan’s 1995 book ma the same pot: gay people were, all all, “Virtually Normal. Our books were part of a rponse by the gay mastream to a self-styled “gay-rights movement” that, n by far-left iologu, had all too often promoted the ia of gays as the cuttg edge of a csa to overthrow every pillar of Amerin society: palism, relign, the ary, the fay. Nothg uld have been more unte to the realy of ordary gay Amerins’ liv or more damagg to the prospects for their equaly.