Europe’s deepening divide on gay rights

However, the heated LBGTQ debate on the continent means that equal rights aren’t fairly the accomplished deal within the West that some homosexual activists as soon as thought, significantly because the motion has broadened its focus to incorporate gender id — a hot-button subject that has riled the proper on each side of the Atlantic for years. The gradual extinction of political moderates in Europe and america hasn’t helped. In Europe, Politico recently noted, the center-right is buckling, “squeezed on the proper, by extra excessive populists and nationalists, and on the left by liberals and particularly the Greens, propelled by issues about local weather change.”