All the other times I can think of that people won rights in this country, it was because people radicalized their churches or unions and then linked them up into a movement.
But when I try to look up how gay marriage happened, I’m finding things crediting liberal organizations or important lawyers, if it’s not just passive voice implying the states just started legalizing gay marriage for no particular reason.
So like… what was the actual organizing principle behind that? Who did the pressuring? I figured a bunch of you would know, so I’m asking.
The more I think about it, I think the context may have been a tangent discussing how the rich hijack movements because I think they were talking about defending transgender people being in the military and how that redirects the energy of a typically subversive culture towards being pro-military.
Edit: so now I’m thinking it was a gay billionaire (or millionaires) behind gay marriage, trans billionaire (Pritzker) behind support of transgender folks in military.