After years of progress, how did the US become so anti-LGBT?

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Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill bans discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in schools between kindergarten and third grade. (Illustration: Esme Blegvad/The Guardian)

In 2019, the Atlantic ran an opinion piece titled “The struggle for gay rights is over”. Written by the rightwing academic James Kirchick, the piece was obviously meant as a provocation, but its argument that “for those born into a…