I would imagine Moderate Gays and Independents feel very good about themselves since they don't have to play the willing, sympathetic role of victim that Liberalism and the left demands of them.

What is becoming abundantly clear to many gays is that you don't have to play either the queer victim or subscribe to its tenants of victimology. Instead, we see the positive progress toward legal and social equality. The reason is simple: Politics has a limited, and declining, ability to shape society and social attitudes. Instead, we see social change and social attitudes shaping politics. Utltimately, politics can only adjust to the deep changes taking place in society. It might be useful to remind ourselves of a few of the fundamental changes taking place on a social, cultural, and economic level that encourage liberty or equality for gays.

We notice on a daily basis the increased visiblity of gays and lesbians as ordinary parts of our society. We see gays more visible in the mass entertainment media today. Almost every poll touching on gay issues shows young people (18 to 29 year olds) are far more accepting of gays than are older people (65 and above). Overall, social attitudes will slowly evolve as the older people die and the younger people carry their gay-friendly attitudes with them into their adulthood and maturity. Psychologists and other therapists firmly reject the idea that homosexuality is anything to reject. Now, they are focusing on helping gays to accept themselves and flourish in their lives and work. This change reflects the much needed decline of Freud and neo-Freudian doctrines. It also deals with the realization that 'conversion therapies' do not work and that gays do not exhibit evidence of pathology. With greater emphasis on self-acceptance and self-actualization, the new focus shifts the focus from compelling the individual to adjust to the majority to the personalist focus.

These are just a few of the changes taking place today that does not require gays and lesbians to be willing victims and the attendant victimology of the left politic.