I wrote something for the BBC about why even though I believe the connection between black civil rights and same-sex marriage is only superficial, the historical and cultural experience of the civil rights movement’s legacy is likely to result in the normalization of gay marriage. The gist of it: elites — a term I use descriptively, not pejoratively — changed the segregation laws via the federal judiciary, over local will, and then mass media changed the consciousness of generations through stigmatization.
I, of course, believe this was a good thing on race. On sexuality, not, because I reject the idea that they are analogous. Anyway, take a look for yourself at what I wrote. I don’t like the headline, though, which sounds crude and Fox-y in tone, and is not really what I’m trying to get at in this piece.
They are not analogous. Skin color is an irrelevant secondary characteristic. It has nothing to do with ability to buy groceries, master nuclear physics, or enter a restaurant for dinner.
Male and female are the essence of what sexuality is about and why it exists.