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Preston Grant

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Gay Liberation Changes Everything

The culture wars of the 1990s obsessed about everything sexual, which put gay people right in the center of the bullseye because of what we represented about the human condition. And because of that, what happened to gay people would affect everyone. Or as the right wing magazine The Nation put it in their 1993 cover story:

All the crosscurrents of present-day liberation struggles are subsumed in the gay struggle. The gay moment is in some ways similar to the moment that other communities have experienced in the nation’s past, but it is also something more, because sexual identity is in crisis throughout the population, and gay people — at once the most conspicuous subjects and objects of the crisis — have been forced to invent a complete cosmology to grasp it. No one says the changes will come easily. But it’s just possible that a small and despised sexual minority will change America forever.

Out of the mouths of conservatives.

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