Rebranding gay rights as the cause célèbre of corporate America...Something isn't right.

[YoungDemCA]

35. I hear what you're saying...

What I think is happening is that representatives of Corporate America are supporting LGBT rights now because opposing them is beginning to hurt their bottom line. However, it's important to note that Corporate America is not driving any of the gains made by LGBT Americans here. They are simply responding to several decades of LGBT organizing, agitation, and activism-a good deal of it radical in orientation. What you are observing is the effect, not the cause, IMHO.

I, too, long for more collective action on the part of organized social justice movements, from the bottom up. But we shouldn't discount the gains made by the LGBT community just because the dominant/mainstream corporate culture is beginning to "get it." At the same time, we should never lose sight of how much work still needs to be done. And as you noted, the co-optation and institutionalization of diversity is something we ought to be wary of in this context.

This is a complex issue, and I can see both sides here.