Plenty of gay people do not support this stuff, but they are not gonna be the ones to shout it down. Especially since it was so easy for the activists to convince them that they were so oppressed in the past.
So they will still say that the gay rights movement was a good thing, even if they object to all the excesses.
Just like black people are not gonna be the ones to shout down BLM or Black Panthers or Nation of Islam, because they experienced some racism in their lives. So they will tip toe around any criticism of these groups.
It’s like a variant of Stockholm Syndrome. Only instead of sympathizing with their captors and tormentors, they are reluctant to criticize demagogues who feign sympathy for their particular victim group, even though they can see what scammers they are.
Exactly