Agreed. As you noted, there has been progress made in the realm of public opinion on LGBQT+ rights, but that doesn’t mean things can’t go back.
and minds…
Agreed, or more importantly, when they are in power (Mike Pence). We can thank the Moral Majority for that, as they were pissed about abortion and gay rights ordinances in the 70s.
He is not, but we live in a weird world where people like him see themselves as still being persecuted like in Rome when they were being thrown to lions. Post-modernity has had some weird ass impacts, that being one major one, people who are not being persecuted, acting like they are when asked to not be dicks… I think this book describes how that happened pretty well:
Everyone likes to be the underdog, as long as they are not the actual underdog.
