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>PBS before they became complete shit did 2 great documentaries on this ... The modern LGBT cult was literally born out of marketing agencies and arguably it was marketing agencies and consumerism, more than any form of actual activism that got LGBT rights passed.
That's interesting yeah. I don't like to get personal, because people take you less seriously, but I will tell you that I saw this myself. I saw these floats sponsored by giant banks roll down the street and thought "yeah, we're gonna win." I'm not saying banks are great, but just in terms of seeing how this was going to go, the simple underlying economics was going to lead to same-sex marriage legalized throughout the U.S., because same-sex marriage leads to more couples settling down and taking out mortgages from those banks. So it's really about turning gay couples into homeowners. Same-sex marriage is actually rather bourgeois in that way.

The one gay activist campaign that was probably most effective was around AIDS in the early 90s. There were groups that were confrontational but had an achievable demand which was to increase federal funding for medical research, and out of that came drugs that keep you alive. That was a life-or-death issue. What happens on the left a lot is you get these "multi-issue" campaigns where everybody throws their own abstract cause into the mix rather than focusing on really doing [insert achievable demand X] and organizing around it.

There's a meme people like to post sometimes that shows OWS and then a Pride parade with a Chase bank float in it, and tries to say one ended the other. But I don't like that meme because the pic of the Pride parade with the Chase bank float was actually taken before OWS happened. I don't think there's any relation, but I do think "sexual politics" are totally compatible with consumer capitalism. Anywhow he's a gay biker club from the 1960s.