The LGBT community is noticing something of a decline in its popularity, which has come with dips in support for its causes. This has various members of said community looking under the hood to see what's going wrong, and while you have those just coming to the conclusion that everyone is homophobic, transphobic, whatever-phobic as they always do, some are pointing to those people making the accusations as the problem.
According to a Gallup poll released on Thursday, support for same-sex marriage has actually declined on the right:
At the same time, Republicans’ support, which peaked at 55% in 2021 and 2022, has gradually edged down to 41%, the lowest point since 2016 after the Obergefell decision.
The current 47-point gap between Republicans and Democrats is the largest since Gallup first began tracking this measure 29 years ago.
Overall, U.S. adults seem to be seeing a slight decline in the approval, dipping from 70 to 68 percent, with the drop in Republican approval contributing the most.
Support for same-sex marriage among Republicans has dropped 14 points in the last 3 years, per Gallup pic.twitter.com/mJEfHRARoG
— bryan metzger (@metzgov) May 29, 2025
Why did this happen?
Gay marriage likely got wrapped up in the LGBT activist war zone. As Brad Polumbo wrote in response to the news, their activist community pushed too far, even to the point where they were mutilating children in broad daylight and forcing their way into women's sports and spaces.
"I blame radical trans activists and their gay allies in LGBT Inc who allowed our rights to be lumped in with extreme policies like medically transitioning minors, ignoring biology in sports, and even putting biologically male sex offenders in women’s prisons," Polumbo posted.
He's right.
The activists, namely those belonging to the "T" column, attempted to make themselves social dictators who acted more like terrorists than activists. The idea of "Give us what we want or else" became the call, and we saw the "or else" manifest as violence against innocents. As the women's prison system proved, giving transgender people what they wanted resulted in violence anyway, with horrible consequences.
Then, of course, there's the queer intelligentsia who became the real voice of the community. These activists went far beyond advocating for "rights," but they fought to normalize depravity in almost every regard, including attraction to minors, lewd public displays of kink, and an outright hatred of anything traditionally American, especially Christianity.
The funny thing is, these two things alone fractured the LGBT community, with many gays and lesbians who fought for the right to marry bowing out, causing the movement to weaken enough that even corporations no longer feel the need to cater to the movement's demands.
But how does this explain the dip in approval for gay marriage on the right?
That's easy. Many conservatives traced the modern problem's roots back to the beginning, with the fight for the right of gay people to get married, and seeing it as a gateway to the issues we're experiencing now, are rejecting even that.
“There’s been more of an emphasis on this idea that LGBTQ rights have gone too far in America — they’re hearing that in churches that are conservative, they’re seeing on social media that’s conservative, on far-right news sources that are conservative,” said Melissa Dreckman, according to NBC News. “And that message is resonating.”
Yes, it is resonating, but not in a vacuum. The framing that this is just the old bigotry of the right resurfacing is a silly thing to think, given the fact that the right had its own increase in approval of gay marriage for some time. However, conservatives have spent the better part of a decade pushing back against the queer and trans community as they tried to infect every aspect of life, including that of our children's. Gays and lesbians got wrapped up in the melee due to their cultural adjacency, and thus, you have the decline in approval for gay marriage.
The blame lies with the transgender and queer activists who turned the "fight for equality" into a war of cultural domination, and that was never going to fly.
My prediction is that the left will continue to rise in approval, but Republicans will continue to fall, followed by Independents, after enough of these battles are fought on their own turf. A fall will happen in approval, but I can see that being arrested as the L, G, and B start purposefully declaring "We're not with them," with many joining the fight to stop them.
That little civil war has been bubbling for some time, though how quickly that happens depends on how hard the T and the Q push.
