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** PRESENTS
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SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT
Icon Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.


** H. W. Longfellow
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This Pride Month, look at the big picture. Religious Americans faced a concerted legal campaign against their ability to operate in the public sphere; gay advocates transformed homosexuality’s image by hiding unseemly members of their coalition; and, finally, some of the consensus is starting to break down. From the archive, three essays that tell this story.
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FROM THE NOVEMBER 1996 ISSUE


** The End of Democracy? A Culture Corrupted ([link removed])
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** HADLEY ARKES
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What drives the litigation for gay rights is the need to have the gay life recognized and confirmed in principle in every setting in which the issue may arise.
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FROM THE FEBRUARY 2026 ISSUE


** The Rise and Fall of Gay Activism ([link removed])
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** SCOTT YENOR
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Embracing raunch was central to first-wave gay activism. If gays were intransigent and loud, Americans would be forced to accept their bathhouses and orgies and learn to live with them.
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FROM THE DECEMBER 2024 ISSUE


** The Fall of Pride ([link removed]*gnrnhq*_ga*MjY2MDY2NTQuMTc1MjA3MjI5NQ..*_ga_7N59F4334H*czE3ODA1OTI1ODQkbzMkZzEkdDE3ODA1OTMwMjckajM1JGwwJGgw)
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** MATTHEW SCHMITZ
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Pride is now criticized not only by conservative Christians, but by progressive activists who make a claim on its deepest meaning.
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