Honestly: Why This Gay Rights Pioneer Opposes Gender Ideology
Two women embrace outside of the U.S. Supreme Court after the 2015 ruling in favor of same-sex marriage. (Mark Wilson via Getty Images)
In 1989, Andrew Sullivan wrote “Here Comes The Groom,” an essay making the conservative case for gay marriage. Less than four decades later, the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges.
How did that happen in such an amazingly short time? Why were gay rights won so quickly? Was there something about the nature of that movement that made it so successful?
Today, a provocative conversation with Andrew Sullivan about what we can learn from the history of gay rights, how gay became LGBTQIA+ . . . and why he doesn’t support gender ideology.