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For eons, Americans were told a lie. Gay people just wanted to hold hands in public and be left alone. They wanted equal treatment under the law, the ability to live their lives quietly without harassment. Most people shrugged and said, okay.

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And for a while, that’s pretty much how it played out. Tensions eased, the country moved on, and the majority of Americans even started genuinely liking the simple, cosmetic gay culture. Shows like Queer Eye took off, and people noticed that when gays moved into rundown neighborhoods, they fixed them up, made them stylish, and breathed new life into neglected places.

But then, something changed.

It was the rise of a really loud, bossy, sexual, and aggressive activist culture that refused to stop once “acceptance” was achieved. Instead of asking for tolerance, it demanded celebration. Instead of privacy, it demanded visibility everywhere. Instead of equality, it demanded special status, constant affirmation, and eventually outright submission.

That’s the part the media never wants to talk about.

Which brings us to a recent New York Times piece that claims Americans are now “turning against” gay people. According to the paper, acceptance for gays peaked around 2020 and has been falling – pretty fast – ever since.

The Times seems quite baffled by this change of heart. After all, by their own data, bias against gay people dropped faster than almost any other social bias on record for years. How could this be? After all, pride parades got bigger, and same-sex marriage became law. And as we all know, corporate America wrapped itself in the rainbow flag. By 2020, acceptance wasn’t just common, it was demanded.

The New York Times:

The decades-long rise in the acceptance of gay people in the United States peaked around 2020 and has sharply reversed since then. The popularity of “Heated Rivalry,” it seems, is a welcome burst of enthusiasm for gay life in a new era of anti-gay prejudice.

This reversal stunned us. In the two decades before 2020, visibility, recognition and legal inclusion of gays and lesbians progressed in lock step — larger and more prominent Pride parades, rainbow-lit landmarks, federal legalization of same-sex marriage. That progress translated into something remarkable: Americans’ bias against gay people declined faster than any other bias ever tracked in social surveys.

Research led by Professor Charlesworth and published in 2022 detailed this decline. Drawing on 7.1 million responses from Americans collected from 2007 to 2020, the researchers tracked both explicit bias (how people answer questions like “To what extent do you prefer straight people over gay people?”) and implicit bias (more automatic responses inferred from how rapidly people associate words, such as “straight” with “good” and “gay” with “bad”). Across every U.S. state and demographic group, anti-gay bias plummeted — by roughly 75 percent on explicit measures and 65 percent on implicit ones, on average. Forecasting models suggested that, at that pace, anti-gay bias could hit zero as early as 2022.

So why the reversal?

The Times goes on and shares more data showing that the shift isn’t just with older Americans or conservatives. It’s happening among young people, and even liberals have had their fill.

The New York Times piece continues:

The analysis of an additional 2.5 million responses from Americans collected from the beginning of 2021 through 2024 revealed that progress had not only stalled; it had reversed. In just four years, anti-gay bias rose by around 10 percent.

Increases also appeared in bias toward Black, darker-skinned, older, disabled and overweight people, but not as starkly. Just as bias against gay people fell especially steeply before 2020, it has surged particularly sharply since.

Perhaps most surprising is that these trends were distinctly robust among the youngest American adults — those under 25. This group increased its animus against marginalized groups in general and gay people in particular at a faster rate than older Americans did. Also surprising is that although anti-gay bias has risen faster among conservatives, it has also risen among liberals.

When younger generations start pulling away, it usually means something has gone totally off the rails. But instead of dealing with that reality, the Times reaches for safer explanations… a tried and true one, the left always falls back on.

COVID.

They also say there’s probably social instability problems and some super vague “anti-establishment” hooey.

The Times piece goes on:

If asked to speculate on the cause of the rise of anti-gay prejudice, we would point to two related factors. The first is social instability. Starting around 2020, the United States experienced a sustained disruption consisting of the Covid pandemic, economic strain and intensifying political conflict — each of which has been linked to heightened intergroup hostility and scapegoating. This would explain the overall rise in bias against marginalized groups.

The second factor, which would explain the rise specifically in anti-gay bias, is anti-establishment sentiment. The sustained social disruption since 2020 has fueled resentment and a loss of confidence in institutions perceived to have failed — governments, corporations, the broader establishment. By 2020, support for gay and lesbian equality had become an establishment position. Corporate America, for example, demonstrated a concrete commitment to gay rights, with companies donating hundreds of thousands of dollars for Pride celebrations and other efforts at gay and lesbian inclusion.

Gay and lesbian people, newly woven into the fabric of mainstream society, may have been collateral damage in a broader revolt against a system that felt broken, especially among younger generations grappling most intensely with uncertainty about their future.

This is where their analysis collapses.

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Americans didn’t suddenly wake up and decide they hated gay people. What they rejected was this endless escalation of radical activism that followed the “acceptance.” We’ve been constantly lectured, and told we must celebrate somebody else’s sex life, as if it’s worthy of sainthood. And let’s not forget the endless corporate mandates, and the month-long nation-wide celebrations. It’s shocking Hallmark didn’t come out with a pride month greeting card. Heck, maybe they did.

But we think the left is denying the most obvious reason of all for the decline: the decision by gay activist leaders to hitch gay acceptance to the mega-unpopular and extremely violent trans movement.

If you ask us, that was the final breaking point.

Americans never signed up for radical gender ideology being pushed into schools, medical systems, sports, prisons, and children’s spaces.

They didn’t agree to a biological reality – two genders – being treated as hate speech.

Eric Daugherty:

HOLY SMOKES. SCOTUS Justice Sam Alito asks ACLU lawyer “what is a man and a woman?” and they DON’T HAVE A DEFINITION.

Alito’s response is perfect.

ALITO: What does it mean to be a man or woman?

ACLU: We do not have a definition for the Court.

ALITO: How can a court determine whether there’s discrimination on the basis of s*x, without KNOWING what s*x means?!

Omg, you can’t make this crap up. Seriously.

And we sure as hell didn’t agree to men in women’s locker rooms, bathrooms, or sports.

And the horrific irreversible medical procedures on minors. We didn’t sign up for any of this, yet it was crammed down our collective gullets.

And when sane, normal people objected to this twisted ideology, they were told they were bigots. That silence tactic worked for a while, until it didn’t, and the dam broke wide open.

We agree with the Times about one thing: corporate America didn’t help matters. When every major brand, airline, bank, and sports league started pushing these far-left, radical activist slogans, it started feeling really enforced.

This backlash is about an activist class that refused to quit while it was ahead, kept pushing, kept demanding more, and then acted shocked when the public finally said enough.

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Their acceptance was achieved, and then some.

But activism just kept going and going… and now the media wants to pretend the consequences came from a hyped-up cold.

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