No, James Kirchick, The Gay Rights Movement Isn’t Over

Dr. Thomas J. West III
8 min readJul 15, 2019

In a recent article for The Atlantic, the noted gay conservative James Kirchick sets out to prove that the gay rights movement is over, its job accomplished. The only thing remaining, he claims, is a bunch of bitter leaders, desperate for some attention and frantic to cling onto some vestige of the power that they once possessed. To do so, he argues, they have taken to inventing new causes for…

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Dr. Thomas J. West III

Ph.D. in English | Film and TV geek | Lover of fantasy and history | Full-time writer | Feminist and queer | Liberal scold and gadfly