While sovereignty over our own country lies at the extreme end of gay nationalism, there are a thousand shades of sovereignty in between that point and where we are today. Acknowledging, finally, that "we can make our little gay world a better place only by making changes for and by ourselves" is one of the first major hurdles we must leap. Even if the gay people never progress beyond this point, it will have been an immense accomplishment.
The gay people have labored for a very long time under the peculiar delusion that all things must be decided by and come from str8 people. If we wish for laws barring discrimination in housing and employment, we ask the str8 people for them. If we wish for protection against violence and murder, we ask the str8 people to do it for us. Rarely does it ever occur to anyone that a cash register operates for gay people in the same manner as it operates for str8 people. Gays can build, own, and rent houses just as str8 men can. We can teach pupils as readily as str8 teachers can, yet there is but one secondary school for gay students in the US, and but one classroom in Canada. And still we clamor for the str8 people to do something about bullying in the schools.
Many things take time, and it has been 37 years since the Stonewall Uprising. The capacity and inclination of the str8 people to do anything for us has, I think, been exceeded. It is high time we as a people at least thought about our situation in our own terms.
The article itself is filled with questions worth consideration.