Saving democracy for LGBTQ America
There is an existential question confronting millions of LGBTQ Americans: How can we help ensure that America’s democracy, the source of our past and future progress, continues?
Will our democracy survive the decade’s end? The absolute key to all LGBTQ progress since the 1950s has been our ability to work through our democratic system, sometimes two steps forward and one step backward, but always working toward full equality in a functioning democracy.
Where authoritarian governments exist, from countries like Russia, Hungary, Poland, Turkey and Qatar to heavily gerrymandered, one-party state legislatures like Tennessee and Texas, our community is under a full-blown authoritarian populist assault.
International death penalties and whippings run down the same line to American verbal assault: “pedos,” “groomers,” “don’t indoctrinate our children.” It is clear that our community’s basic rights are dependent upon governments that embody pluralism and grassroots democracy.
