Gay people are motivated, emboldened today like never before. I don't know if it's a DNA thing that many individuals get to a certain point or grasp a certain logic simultaneously (though that has been a long standing theory of mine).
Like everyone wanted cabbage patch dolls (which were really kind of eerie looking to the consumer when they first went on the market), then people thought a common lily was worth thousands of dollars. And in the eighties -remember the eighties ?
-everyone was cowboy!--O.K. Those were fads but it still seems remarkable so many people hit on the same trend immediately .
Gays
as individuals seem to
all be saying at the same time,
"Enough! This is what I'm going to do. And this is the B. S. I am not going to take."
So to some it may have seemed like "an agenda".
I think (if you disregard my DNA theory) it was a social evolution that had it's roots in the womens movement and the black power movement.
And as we are now in a more enlightened state than when those two groups paved the way (with the help and the prayers of gay and straight men and women who either took up a sign or quietly prayed), gays and lesbians can spiritually and mentally jump over some of the more drawn out lessons those movements taught society. Not to say there haven't been deaths and bombings and rape and so on connected with violent outrage and rebellion at the change that must take place.
Growth is painful. Ask any teenager. Societal growth is sometimes accompanied by civil war. But we've already had one of those and the ghosts of our history books, while not being able to quite show us how truly horrible it was, have made us aware of the importance of the lessons learned there. So we follow that precept pretty blindly and good for us.
In the back of her heart if not in the back of her mind, America knows there is another coming of age. But that heart of America is not the troglodyte who dreams up the phrase "gay agenda". It is the good. Always remember that.
The heart of this country is what gives us empathy with another human being.
And good must win or else what? Bad will win. We won't allow that to happen. We are the guys with the white hats.
And I know that seems cliché and it is cliché, but if that explains it then so be it. I can't say it any better. There will always be Potters to our well meaning Mr. Bailey. Always a Scrooge to just begrudge anything to anyone just because he can. And darn it he'll stamp his foot and have his way with 'Id'.
But we all know what eventually happens to the Scrooges and Potters of this world. Either they get on board the gravy train with the rest of us midnight gamblers, or they simply dry up and blow away. Poof!