How ‘Pride’ 2026 Showed That the LGBT Movement Is Imploding

If there is a takeaway from this year’s month-long celebration of sexual experimentation, redefinition and rebellion, it is that LGBTQ has been fully revealed as the incoherent mess it always has been.

The ever-growing rainbow of letters do not represent a unified worldview because each denies the wonder and truth of what it means to be human. In fact, they are set on upending this.Whether you have a Christian (or some other faith-basis) or an evolutionary materialist worldview, you believe that both male and female and their union are essential for sexuality, the family and humanity to function.

Opposition to this fact is the primary flaw of all LGBTQ ideology and it has been demonstrated in colorful ways around this year’s ‘pride’ month. The rainbow coalition is finally imploding.

Two key leaders in this movement have demonstrated this very powerfully. One is old, the other young.

The old one is Andrew Sullivan who essentially kick-started the same-sex marriage redefinition debate with his ground-breaking 1989 “Here Comes the Groom” article in the New Republic magazine. Being a grandfather of this movement, Sullivan has become the movement’s cranky old man, bemoaning that gay rights movement became too radical by going trans and queer. In fact, The New York Times gave Sullivan 4,200 words of its precious print real estate last year for him to amply illustrate how LGBTQ “radicalized and lost its way.”

But in early June 2026, Sullivan confessed how “distressing” it is to find the Ts and the Qs are “setting us back 20 years” because of their radicalness. This was demonstrated in a June Gallup report indicating support for gay and lesbian relationships among republicans, democrats and independents had turned southward.

Gallup also explained that support for gay “marriage” started dipping in 2023 and has continued to decline. Sullivan blames this decline on the fact that trans and queer ideologies have become “hegemonic” in LGTQ world. So much so, as Sullivan explained, it’s “why it is only appropriate that [NYC mayor Zohran] Mamdani put out a ‘pride’ statement this week referring solely to ‘queer and trans people,’ excising LGBs from the movement we built.”

Kicked off their own bus because they are seen by supporters as boringly traditional.

The younger voice criticizing the devolution of LGTBQ is 36-year-old Matthew Vines who gained notoriety in 2015 for his deeply heretical book, God and the Gay Christian. It sought to rewrite Jesus’ clear sexual ethic, explained in Mark 10 and Matthew 19, which affirmed the truth of Genesis’ creation anthropology.

On the last day of this year’s ‘pride’ month, The New York Times published an editorial from Vines concerned that the movement he helped prop up is losing serious steam because “queer” is overtaking the “gay” that he salutes. In fact, his piece is titled, “I’m Gay, Not Queer. It Matters.”

It matters to Vines because, like Sullivan, “queer” is too radical for his liking. But as so many of Vines’ peers in his own movement reminded him so many times in negative reaction to his piece, the gay movement has always been about challenging convention.

The Advocate opined that people like Sullivan and Vines “suggest we can have our rights so long as we reassure the broader public that we are not too political, too gender-nonconforming, too disruptive, too trans, too angry, too difficult, too visible, too queer.”  The Washington Blade, in reaction to Vines, explained the central problem in their view is “the United States remains a nation that enforces and exalts a heterosexual, cisgender majority.” Thus, to “be queer, to resist and reject standards that normalizes and essentialize gender and sexuality, is a countercultural act, whether or not people like Vines are ready to acknowledge it.”

Sullivan and Vines mistakenly assumed that redefining marriage to allow same-sex couples to “marry” would settle gays down. They were wrong. This movement only knows how to grow more radical because that is its very DNA.

Vines is also sad that his movement no longer believes its old baseless talking point “that being gay is not a choice” in favor of same-sex relationships being “better thought of as a part of a wider rebellion against social norms.”

Of course, Vines is correct in this observation. Major LGBT voices have been challenging the idea that sexual orientation is fixed as the “born-this-way” claim asserts. The truth is, there is actually very little agreement over what sexual orientation even is and is not.

The most significant among these voices is lesbian gender scholar Lisa Diamond who destroyed the ‘born-this-way’ claim in a popular TED Talk. She explained the claim is not supported by scientific data, nor is it “fair” to gay and lesbian political efforts. 

Professor Sari van Anders of Queen’s University in Canada has called for retiring the concept of sexual orientation altogether in favor of her more scientifically and experientially accurate “Sexual Configuration Theory.” She holds that “sexual orientation as a term is increasingly seen as regressive,” because it “belongs to the bioessentialist project.” That “project” holds that male and female are actual biological categories. After all, gay or lesbian mean nothing if male and female do not actually exist.

University of California, Riverside sociologist Brandon Andrew Robinson has recently renewed the call to abolish all sexual identities like gay and lesbian because open fluidity allows for so many more possibilities. UC Riverside reports Robinson’s thesis is, “Sexual identity functions as a kind of prison, confining human desire and reinforcing a false notion of gender based on fixed, biological categories.” The tide is moving against you, Mr. Vines.

This is why the LGBT movement is presently imploding. It is set on overturning the historic and culturally universal reality of what it means to be human as male and female. It is set on overturning a creation anthropology given to us in the truth and wisdom of Genesis, which, as we have seen, is solidly affirmed by Jesus himself.

No wonder it’s imploding. This false ideology is riddled with internal contradictions. 

Our job is to continue to demonstrate the various ways that ‘pride’ month and its rainbow banner are set against human truth, and thus collapsing as a result.