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.
Alright but see it from my perspective, it was literally the Tories who legalised gay marriage in the UK, not the labour party, not the left, not a significant grassroots queer movement, not even really a particularly strong liberal-organised movement. They just did that, despite more than half their own and half the country opposing it.
They didn’t do that because they’re good people. Or because they thought it was the right thing to do or any shite like that. They’re the tories, they did that for interests.
From the perspective we get over here we can only analyse it from the viewpoint that I’m raising. The tories did this shit in 2013, america then did it in 2015, the timing of these things happening together isn’t a coincidence.
If you’re going to say they did it for a different reason, we need to come up with some possibilities that aren’t “the tories were just being good people for once” because I do not believe that shit.
they may have done it because a liberal queer liberation movement (of any focus) is no threat to the donor class, since it doesnt attempt any form of economic liberation.
so they might as well enact it, score some good boy points and throw a bone to their gay friends.