Gay People and the Marriage Meat

Marriage equality was a way to telegraph to a straight audience that gay people and straight people were actually very similar. To activists had faced decades of discrimination at the hands of straight people. Why tell people who have been your tormentors that you are just like them? Some of evans's fellow actavists implied to him that he was being a sellout. Evan told them they were missing the point. We should be fighting for liberation, not assimilation. Straight people, at least, some straight people were needed as alli they were an indispensable part of it.