Meanwhile, most observers in the mainstream community don't seem to understand this divide: those who campaign for gay marriage (almost always moderates) sometimes get unfairly lumped in with those who make life difficult for bakeries who don't bake gay wedding cakes (almost always radicals), for example. Likewise, the mistaken view that trans people all believe that gender is a social construct (more on this later).
The New Radical Feminism that Critical Theory Built The 'radical' faction of LGBT activism, through embracing critical theory in general, also often promotes ideas from critical theory influenced radical feminism (again, the term is used broadly here, to mean all forms of feminism that are not liberal feminism). While feminism had already been around for a century by the 1970s, the influence of ideas under the critical theory umbrella essentially created a fundamentally different form of feminism around this time. Unlike conventional feminism and its focus on equal legal, employment and education rights, second wave radical feminism saw the then-existing society and its sexist relations as a system they call 'patriarchy', and attempted to study this system similar to how Marx studied capitalism, in the hope of eventually 'overthrowing' it (you can see the critical theory influence here). Second wave radical feminists thus criticized marriage, family, and sometimes even liberal democracy and the scientific method, as being in service of the patriarchy, similar to how Marxist critical theorists criticized these things 75
