The Same People
Newsweek, June, 2008 by Anna Quindlen
Scream, shout, jump up and down. No matter. The gay-marriage issue is over and done with. The upshot: love won.
During his sophomore year in high school, one of our sons mentioned at the dinner table that a classmate had come out of the closet. I can’t even remember which of the two boys it was, and that’s not only because my memory is now so bad that I can reread mystery novels and not recall whodunit. It’s because the announcement was such a big nothing among the kids that it was only slightly more noteworthy than “pass the mac and cheese.” Unlike my own high-school friends, these kids took gay for granted.
One of the most transformative social movements over our lifetime has been the battle for gay rights, and the key to its great success has been the...
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