Role Models....have they gone the way of the Disco?

It's funny watching the young gay men of today. I see these men who are proud of who they are and yet they expect all the world to bow down to their every need. I have attended a few of the Gay and Lesbian meetings on campus ( yes Girl...... I am a sorority girls worst nightmare) and to listen to tomorrows gay,lesbian and transgender adults it is a sad statement on our community.
I admit we have come a very long way from the sissy's of pre- code cinema and yet we haven't. We are slapped in the face with the Chris Colfer and Sean Hayes characters on television and we laud accolades on the creators (i.e. Ryan Murphy) of stereotypes we fought so long for to erase.....does anyone remember the outrage over Billy Crystal's gay character in Soap or Al Pacinos' film Cruising...I asked a guest speaker about these new stereotypes and his response was these are not stereotypes they are comic actors and the roles are funny.....yeah and Uncle Remus and Buckwheat are common folk.
In the 80's and 90's we had ACT UP and we fought and had our voices heard at the cost of many lives with the epidemic...and now those that have survived really have no one to pass that baton of activism to. With the insanity of the Tea Party and their voices of absurdity against the gay community and women's rights. I listen as these youth talk about Gaga and the decline of Madonna while one of their most important rights is being fought tooth and nail by the right. I yearn for the day of protests and civil disobedience within the community...I want to see all of us out there fighting for what is a common right to all US citizens.
I held the marriage license of a friend of mine and that simple piece of paper was the most beautiful thing I have held since my niece was an infant. It was that piece of paper I want our community to be out there fighting for...it is the basic right to live as a couple not under the stigma of the beliefs of the right. It is this I find myself scratching my head at how the community forget what the fights of STONEWALL were all about....those youth,leathermen and drag queens just wanted to be treated as equals...so why have we stopped fighting this close to the finish line.