Marriage Equality for Evan Wilson

Marriage equality for Evan Wilson was a way to telegraph to a straight audience that gay people and straight people were actually very similar. To activists who had faced decades of discrimination at the hands of straight people, this argument felt demeaning. Why tell people who have been your tormentors that you are just like them? Some of Evan's fellow activists implied to him that he was being a sellout. He told them they were missing the point. We should be fighting for liberation, not assimilation.