The Weekend of Gay

This weekend there was a National March for Equality in D.C. with many state marches to provide space for people who weren't in D.C. to join in the efforts. Obama spoke at the HRC dinner. It's the 21st anniversary of National Coming Out Day so there are events, especially on college campuses and increasingly in high schools and middle schools about all that.
Our movement has come so incredibly far, so far that in many ways we're big enough to start fracturing. It happens with so many movements, the women's movement, the black civil rights movement both had fractures within their movements about the way to approach things. So it's not really a surprise.
The thing is, I don't want to pick sides (so long as all the movements stay non-violent). And I really hate it when both sides criticize each other. I'm also torn about this. It's not like we shouldn't challenge all of our movements to be better, but it's doesn't feel so much like an attempt to pressure each other to do better, it feels like a turf war. And that's what I don't like. I don't want anyone spending their energy trying to destroy HRC or ERW. I don't want anyone spending time telling the younger movements to slow down and not push so hard. I wish that there was some way to acknowledge the spectrum of the movement. To recognize that we need some radical people, even if they are sometimes irritating in their ignorance about how to actually pass legislation. To recognize that we need the people who have been lobbying for decades about LGBT equality, even if they are are sometimes irritating in their belief that it's going to take more time before we can achieve greater equality.