Building A More Inclusive GOP

Opinion: Since 2015, Identity Politics Has Narrowed What It Means to Be Gay Over the past decade, something troubling has taken root in the gay community. Beginning around 2015, as identity politics surged into the mainstream, a new expectation emerged: that there is a single “correct” way to be gay. This shift didn’t empower us. It narrowed us. It isolated those who didn’t conform. And it weakened the very diversity our community once celebrated. The rise of ideological uniformity has pushed the gay community toward becoming a political monolith where dissent is treated as betrayal. Independent thought—once a hallmark of...