LGBT folks have a peculiar interest in normalization. Normalize men in dresses. Normalize trans athletes. Normalize throuples.
Normalize fetishes. Here a norm, there a norm, everywhere a norm norm. Every norm everywhere all at once. But as a gay man myself, I celebrate an inconvenient truth of Pride Month: We’ll never be normal.
Outside of culture wars or activist agendas — strictly by the numbers — LGBT identity is nothing remotely approaching mainstream.
We’re here. We’re queer. You’ll never get used to it. The percent of Americans who identify as LGBT or “something other than heterosexual” doubled between 2012 and 2022, soaring to a little more than 7 percent, according to Gallup polling.