As a gay conservative,
I did not ask for special treatment.
I asked for a normal life.
That includes the right to reject woke politics without having my identity revoked.
Love gets less performative with time.
It becomes remembering what somebody needs from the store.
Charging their phone.
Knowing when they need space.
Handling something before they have to ask.
As a gay man, I'll say what a lot of us are thinking.
We fought to be left alone. To marry the man we love, keep our jobs, and live a quiet life.
We won.
Then woke activists took our letters, stapled on a dozen causes we never signed up for, and started calling us bigots for