The recent, astounding, benign change of consciousness to majority acceptance of LGBT people in our society suggested to me that, unlike classic oppressed minorities in this country, many in the LGBT community had great means to bring to the fight - OBVIOUSLY not all in that community, by any means, but enough -- which reminded me of an insight I got into the African-American Civil Rights movement in the 50s and early 60s by virtue of having known, at that time, so many members of the African-American middle class whom I realized were not part of the public consciousness, but who, I realized, had reached critical mass, in that they were now economically powerful enough to create sustained, transformative push-back against the overt victimization which had characterized race relations here until then.
In other words, by that time, the African-American middle class was so well established that there was no politically feasible force on earth that could dislodge it; and so it could take bold action to demand change, because its existence would not be threatened by the violent backlash which had prevailed since Reconstruction, echoes of which still resonate and will continue to do so, despite the now-transcendent, and near universal, disapprobation of any coherent rationale for it.
So the political problem in this country now can more clearly be seen to be based almost entirely on poverty; and, as more and more people are thrown by Republican economic policies into that state, separated from ethnic identity, the suggestion from the above analysis is that the solutions, which are all too available but blocked by Republican policies backed by the unholy alliance of economic power and ignorance, can only come when members of the various ethnic and sub-national groups that make up the entirety of the American political spectrum make enough of a common cause within their own, self-identified groups with their poverty-stricken members to destroy the invidious link between poverty and immorality which, more than anything, unifies the aforementioned unholy alliance.