After volunteering for Maryland's marriage equality campaign and a subsequent transgender rights legislation campaign, my aspiration was to become a social justice writer and activist. That January, I had enrolled at Columbia University to complete my undergraduate degree, a goal I had been postponing for over a decade. I first became aware of this new homophobia in the summer of 2017, when I interned at a major LGBTQ-rights organization. In fact, it is threatening our very existence. For adult gay people like me, it's clear that this activism does not advance our equality, but in fact compromises our ability to live peacefully in society. There is a frightening new version of homophobia pervading the U.S., disguised as, of all things, 'LGBTQ' activism.
