“civil rights do not change the social order in dramatic ways; they change only the privileges of the group asserting those rights. Civil rights strategies do not challenge the moral an antisexual underpinnings of homophobia, because homophobia does not originate in our lack of full civil equality. Rather, homophobia arise from the nature and construction of the political, legal, economic, sexual, racial and family systems within which we live.”
Urvashi Vaid