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Gabriel Arana's Idiotic Argument That the Gays Don't Need More Visibility

Last time we checked in with The American Prospect's Gabriel Arana, he was arguing that making Matthew Shepard the face of gay rights was a mistake. So what's the liberal rag's fag writer up to this week? Calling the National Equality March "incoherent" (which it might be), but also claiming that its very purpose — to give gays visibility — is irrelevant. Ugh.

Say what you will about Cleve Jones' birthday party in D.C. this weekend, but one thing it will do is give LGBT Americans more visibility. Yes, despite Congress being out of session. And yes, despite a holiday weekend. The march, for all its problems, reckons to be a defining moment in the gay civil rights struggle. And yet, argues Arana (who is gay), the one thing gays don't need much of right now is visibility.

We haven't reached the end of the gay-rights movement, but the modern issues we are fighting for — achieving marriage equality, passing the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, and repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and Don't Ask, Don't Tell — aren't really issues of visibility. People know we're here and that we're queer, which is to say that the

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