Passive activism usually leads to apathy in my opinion. I'm not saying that just because /you/ have stopped protesting or whatever, it means that you will flop on your sofa and stop caring. But it's been my experience that when people become even remotely comfortable with what they have (decent job, decent relationship, decent friends, safe place to live), they stop caring about the bigger picture, or other people outside of their environment.

Columbus is a very apathetic queer city, in my opinion. People here have a lot of bars and clubs, some legislation and protection to make them feel safe, and there's a whole lot of gay money floating around. So they don't do anything to advance anything.