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Gay marriage was made law in America by essentially a random fucking miracle with only a sliver of a majority of the population in support just 11 years ago. We only just figured this shit out, and the other half of Americans will never forgive us for it and fully intend to, and probably will, claw it back very soon.
Hot take: while gay marriage is definitely a good thing, the framing some people make of it being the be all end all gay rights litmus test reflects a bourgeois class bias. While it doesn’t apply to aspects like child custody and hospital visitation/medical decisions, the tax and inheritance aspects do. A gay homeless teenager who was kicked out of their house for being gay needs housing, healthcare, community support, income sources. Inheritance and taxes aren’t pressing matters.
So when libs frame “good country on LGBT rights” vs “bad country on LGBT rights” purely on the question of gay marriage, they’re judging those countries on “are they good for monied LGBT individuals?”
(FYI not accusing you of this thinking, just something I’ve observed in the larger discourse)