The fury over the queers

Eliminationism in America, Part 13: How the LGBTQ community became the object of a far-right campaign to not just harass them, but drive them out of modern society altogether.

Part 13 of 15: [Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12.]

The envelope arrived in my mail looking for all the world like pornography, the way it was sold in 1981: an envelope marked with a fake stamp marking it “Confidential.” On the back was the return address. It came from Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority in Lynchburg, Virginia.

I liked to keep an…