I’d argue that the ‘freaks, weirdos and nuts’ were always part of and running the show to some degree. It’s just that now the ‘saner’ people have stopped being activists so the loonies are more exposed. That and they think they no longer have a reason to hide.
The regular LGBs won.
They got gay marriage. They got equality.
Then the loonies took over, because the regular gay people who just wanted to be equal, and similar allies moved on.
I was very adamant for allowing gays to be equal. If we reverted that right, I'd be fighting for it again. But I left that movement years ago because we accomplished the goals and got what we wanted.
And since then the movement has become some weird thing that makes new names for pedophiles as to not offend them, wants to expose children to drag shows, and perform life altering surgeries on them while shoving hormones into their young bodies.
It's fucking sick and disgusting, and as a straight ally who has been around gay people most my my life, no, this was not always the norm. These people were not always running the show. I'm not an ally anymore, and If this is what the movement was like back then, I'd have been against them back then, too.
This is highly unfortunate for the gay people who just wanna grill. This toxic movement is going to make life difficult for them. More of them need to have tne God damn courage to speak the fuck up, though.