Editing Andrew Sullivan (section)

===LGBT issues===

==== HIV ====
In 1996, discussing [[HIV]], he argued in the ''[[New York Times Magazine]]'' that "this plague is over" insofar as "it no longer signifies death. It merely signifies illness."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sullivan |first=Andrew |date=November 10, 1996 |title=When Plagues End |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/10/magazine/when-plagues-end.html |access-date=2022-06-05 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=3 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240903205013/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/10/magazine/when-plagues-end.html |url-status=live }}</ref> This led to "a trend of white male journalists proclaiming that [[AIDS]] is over", according to Sarah Schulman.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schulman |first=Sarah |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1251803405 |title=Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 |publisher=[[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]] |year=2021 |isbn=978-0-374-71995-1 |edition= |location=New York City |pages=xxii |language=en |oclc=1251803405 |access-date=5 June 2022 |archive-date=3 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240903205015/https://search.worldcat.org/title/1251803405 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== Gay issues ====
Sullivan, like [[Marshall Kirk]], Hunter Madsen, and [[Bruce Bawer]], has been described by [[Urvashi Vaid]] as a proponent of "legitimation", seeing the objective of the [[LGBT social movements|gay rights movement]] as "mainstreaming gay and lesbian people" rather than "radical social change".<ref>{{cite book|first=Urvashi |last=Vaid |authorlink=Urvashi Vaid |title=Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay & Lesbian Liberation |publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] | location = New York City |date =1996 |isbn =978-1101972342 |page=37}}</ref> Sullivan wrote the first major article in the U.S. advocating for gay people to be given the right to marry,<ref name="intelligent" /> published in ''The New Republic'' in 1989.<ref name="groom">{{cite news|last=Sullivan|first=Andrew|title=Here Comes the Groom|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/11/gay_marriage_votes_and_andrew_sullivan_his_landmark_1989_essay_making_a.html|access-date=24 October 2013|newspaper=Slate|date=9 November 2012|archive-date=25 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925191240/http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/11/gay_marriage_votes_and_andrew_sullivan_his_landmark_1989_essay_making_a.html|url-status=live}}</ref> According to one columnist for ''[[1843 (magazine)|Intelligent Life]],'' many on "the gay left," aiming to alter social codes of sexuality for everyone, were chagrined at Sullivan's endorsement of the "assimilation" of gay people into "straight culture."<ref name="intelligent" /> In the wake of the [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] rulings on same-sex marriage in 2013 (''[[Hollingsworth v. Perry]]'' and ''[[United States v. Windsor]]''), ''[[The New York Times]]'' op-ed columnist [[Ross Douthat]] suggested that Sullivan might be the most influential political writer of his generation, writing: "No intellectual that I can think of, writing on a fraught and controversial topic, has seen their once-crankish, outlandish-seeming idea become the conventional wisdom so quickly, and be instantiated so rapidly in law and custom."<ref name="Douthat" />

As of 2007, Sullivan opposed [[hate crime]] laws, arguing that they undermine [[freedom of speech]] and [[Equal Protection Clause|equal protection]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/05/hate_crimes_and.html |title=The Daily Dish &#124; By Andrew Sullivan (3 May 2007) – Hate Crimes and Double Standards |publisher=Andrew Sullivan |access-date=9 March 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090308132915/http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/05/hate_crimes_and.html| archive-date= 8 March 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref>

In 2014, Sullivan opposed calls to remove [[Brendan Eich]] as CEO of [[Mozilla]] for donating to the campaign for [[Proposition 8]], which made [[same-sex marriage]] illegal in California.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Hounding of a Heretic|url=http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-brendan-eich/|work=The Dish|date=3 April 2014|access-date=22 August 2015|archive-date=7 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107083013/http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-brendan-eich/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=10 April 2014|title=Andrew Sullivan Blows Colbert's Mind with Defense of Brendan Eich|url=http://www.mediaite.com/tv/andrew-sullivan-blows-colberts-mind-with-defense-of-brendan-eich/|publisher=mediaite.com|access-date=22 August 2015|archive-date=3 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603140243/http://www.mediaite.com/tv/andrew-sullivan-blows-colberts-mind-with-defense-of-brendan-eich/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Andrew Sullivan sparks ire of gay community over defense of former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich|url=http://www.techtimes.com/articles/5432/20140412/andrew-sullivan-sparks-ire-of-gay-community-over-defense-of-former-mozilla-ceo-brendan-eich.htm|work=Tech Times|date=12 April 2014|access-date=22 August 2015|archive-date=22 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822151034/http://www.techtimes.com/articles/5432/20140412/andrew-sullivan-sparks-ire-of-gay-community-over-defense-of-former-mozilla-ceo-brendan-eich.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2015, he claimed that "gay equality" had been achieved in the U.S. by the persuasive arguments of "old-fashioned liberalism" rather than the activism of "identity politics leftism."<ref>{{cite web|title=The Left's Intensifying War on Liberalism " The Dish|url=http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2015/01/27/the-lefts-intensifying-war-on-liberalism/|work=The Dish|date=27 January 2015|access-date=22 August 2015|archive-date=15 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150815180817/http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2015/01/27/the-lefts-intensifying-war-on-liberalism/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Transgender issues ====
In 2007, Sullivan said he was "no big supporter" of the [[Employment Non-Discrimination Act]], arguing that it would "not make much of a difference." He said the "gay rights establishment" was making a tactical error by insisting on protections for [[gender identity]], as he believed it would be easier to pass the bill without [[transgender]] people.<ref>{{cite web|title=Andrew Sullivan Supports Barney Frank / Queerty|date=12 October 2007|url=http://www.queerty.com/andrew-sullivan-supports-barney-frank-20071012/|access-date=9 March 2009|website=[[Queerty]]|archive-date=15 January 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115102041/http://www.queerty.com/andrew-sullivan-supports-barney-frank-20071012/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In a September 2019 ''[[Intelligencer (website)|Intelligencer]]'' column, Sullivan expressed concern that gender-nonconforming children (especially those who are likely one day to come out as gay) might be encouraged to believe that they are transgender when they are not.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sullivan|first=Andrew|date=2019-09-20|title=Andrew Sullivan: When the Ideologues Come for the Kids|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/andrew-sullivan-when-the-ideologues-come-for-the-kids.html|access-date=2021-07-29|website=[[Intelligencer (website)|Intelligencer]]|language=en-us|archive-date=29 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729201749/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/andrew-sullivan-when-the-ideologues-come-for-the-kids.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In November 2019, Sullivan wrote another ''[[Intelligencer (website)|Intelligencer]]'' column on young women who, in their teens, had begun to transition to live as men but later [[detransition]]ed. In that article, he discussed the [[PLOS One#Rapid onset gender dysphoria controversy|controversy]] over a 2018 journal article by Lisa Littman that proposed a socially mediated subtype of gender dysphoria that Littman had termed "[[rapid onset gender dysphoria]]".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/andrew-sullivan-hard-questions-gender-transitions-for-young.html|title=Andrew Sullivan: The Hard Questions About Young People and Gender Transitions|last=Sullivan|first=Andrew|date=2019-11-01|website=[[Intelligencer (website)|Intelligencer]]|language=en-us|access-date=2019-11-04|archive-date=3 September 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240903205014/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/andrew-sullivan-hard-questions-gender-transitions-for-young.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In April 2021, he said it should be illegal for doctors to initiate [[Transgender hormone therapy|cross-sex hormones]] for children under 16 or [[sex reassignment surgery]] for children under 18.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sullivan|first=Andrew|date=9 April 2021|title=A Truce Proposal in the Trans Wars|url=https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/a-truce-proposal-in-the-trans-wars-c49|access-date=29 July 2021|website=[[Substack]]|archive-date=29 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729201751/https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/a-truce-proposal-in-the-trans-wars-c49|url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Recognitions ====
In 1996, Sullivan's book ''Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality'' won the Mencken Award for Best Book, presented by the Free Press Association.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Mencken Awards: 1982–1996|url=https://menckenawards.blogspot.com/2019/11/normal_13.html|access-date=17 November 2019|archive-date=16 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116052955/https://menckenawards.blogspot.com/2019/11/normal_13.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2006, Sullivan was named an [[LGBT History Month]] icon.<ref>{{cite web|date=20 August 2011|title=Andrew Sullivan|url=http://www.lgbthistorymonth.com/andrew-sullivan|access-date=15 January 2014|publisher=LGBTHistoryMonth.com|archive-date=9 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009190937/http://www.lgbthistorymonth.com/andrew-sullivan|url-status=live}}</ref>