This is the gay agenda: equality. Not special rights, but the rights that are already written by [our Founding Fathers].

Granderson’s line reframes the pejorative phrase “the gay agenda” as a straightforward demand for equal treatment under existing American civic ideals. By contrasting “equality” with “special rights,” the quote addresses a common rhetorical move in debates over LGBTQ civil rights—casting nondiscrimination protections or marriage equality as extra privileges rather than equal access to rights already promised in founding documents and constitutional principles. Invoking the “Founding Fathers” situates LGBTQ claims within a patriotic, constitutional narrative: the argument is not for new categories of entitlement, but for consistent application of established rights and liberties to gay people as full citizens.