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What was Andrew Sullivan's involvement in LGBT issues?
Andrew Sullivan has been described as a proponent of legitimation, seeing the objective of the gay rights movement as being mainstreaming gay and lesbian people rather than radical social change.
How exactly did Andrew Sullivan get involved?
Andrew Sullivan wrote the first major article in the United States advocating for gay people to be given the right to marry.
Was Andrew Sullivan's article published?
Andrew Sullivan's article was published in The New Republic in 1989.

Question: Was his article praised?
Self-contained rewrite: Was Andrew Sullivan's article praised?