Andrew Sullivan

“What rational person would engage in this sort of activity? There is only one solution – let’s tax it,” wrote the self-loathing economist.

By trying to prove we’d be better off as a movement if everyone looked and sounded the way society expects us to, he betrays a blindness towards trans issues.

Hell hath no fury like a privileged white gay man who has waited too long for the next pride parade contingent to sashay by.

To say there’s been a flurry of discussion around the release of a new book Tuesday on the legal case that challenged California’s Proposition 8 would be an understatement. The book, “Forcing the Spring,” by The New York Times writer Jo Becker, has been thoroughly pilloried by many plugged-in LGBT activists and journalists this week, both publicly and privately.