Yet despite all of this, the Republican Party is actively working to undermine gay rights over asinine fears that children are being “ groomed” to become gay. In 2020, over three-quarters of all Americans supported equal rights for gay people in housing, work and public life. Since 2015, increasingly large majorities of Americans - and majorities of both Democrats and Republicans - have supported issues like same-sex marriage and LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections. Hodges that legalized same-sex marriage, it was hard to imagine that we would ever have to live through the struggles that countless gay Americans once did.
For gay Americans like myself who have largely grown up after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v.