#1. No. Gay pride is not a 'single issue identity movement' when it involves systemic pervasive and historic discrimination throughout a society because identity movements of that sort of social, legal and cultural reform involve a hell of a lot more than a 'single issue'. You need a LOT of education on what' coming out' entails. before you can understand where the gay pride originates and what it turns into. It starts as a very small seed with just enough exposure the right combination of time and circumstance to grow past the shame, fear and some bad starts, to reach a potentially positive experience. A couple of those and you have the beginnings of that 'private membership club' that is fed by gay pride and feeds gay pride, and then it turns into a 'social group' including more family, more friends, maybe some co-workers. There is no one 'coming out' moment . Its a series of 'coming outs; that just keep on happening throughout our lives. We may choose to do it each time we move, or change jobs or find a new social circle or circumstances may 'out' us before we decide.
The 'public' are all those people, who we did not personally know and not consciously decide to inform on our own directly. Whether we put a note on our front door, or used Facebook, or walked in the public streets holding our lovers hand, or kissed in the park, danced with our boyfriend at prom, or chose to accept the risk of arrest for protesting at Stonewall, or walked in a pride march, we publicly 'came out' by exposing ourselves to a fickle public opinion and governmental reaction.
#2 You are comparing a political protest movement over a constitutional decision like Roe, or one that demands a stop to bombs in Vietnam and a suit for peace process, with a movement that involves deep social , religious and cultural roots in bigotry and discrimination on every personal social and political level over hundreds of years. I think we have a little more work to do here, and that requires a little more vigilance than the some admittedly important victories over a couple of decades. Those 'victory dances' today, are part of that social pressure that wards off complacency and backsliding under the opposite pressures by conservative and religious leaders to undo those successes which still exist
#3 Here I will cede your larger point even if I would word it differently. There is an inevitable and ironic tension in any major social or legal reform movement looking for ways to seem relevant and maintain a subcultural identity, and still push forward towards its own irrelevance. Its a little like parents who's success is mostly measured, by not being needed anymore, still wanting to feel like parents.
#4 Politics is by definition about identities and groups who's labels and unifying natures change. It was that way before Christ, in the Middle Ages, in the Reformation, in the Enlightenment, in the industrial age, and thereafter. Groups that were insecure, usually had one hell of a reason to be. Those that felt they were seen as outside the norms of society, were taught that they were, by other groups who dominated them. Such biases and insecurities will always be internalized as part of the socialization process within a systemically marginalized and stereotyped minority group under the tutelage of the majority. That's how this control thing goes. The fact that you feel some need to isolate sexual identity groups from all the rest throughout history, tells me more about your particular bias, than history
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