When the news me last June that the New York State Senate had voted to legalize same-sex marriage, I was at a dner party that felt like New Year’s Eve, only wh genue emotns. Everyone at the table—straight, gay, young, old—was elated. [...]
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WHEWASHG GAY HISTORY
* fran lebowitz gay *
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THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
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I ask her when she knew she was gay. Beg gay, was illegal then.
Fet fightg for gay marriage, how about jt tryg not to go to jail? ”Given that homosexualy was a crime then, was she ever sred of beg arrted? “It was never sry for me bee the police were mostly arrtg gay men, bee that furiated them more [than lbians].
Most wrers wre; Fran Lebowz talks. The opnated sayist and rantr discs the reactn of her parents to her outspoken manner; why she still smok; and her thoughts on gay marriage. * fran lebowitz gay *
From a young age, she knew she was gay, somethg she unrstood would never be emed acceptable the suburbs. Frank Rich: Why We Can't Fet That Gay Marriage's Liberal Champns Spent Des on the Wrong Si of the Issue -- New York Magaze - Nymag. Everyone at the table—straight, gay, young, old—was elated.
Same-sex-marriage adversari nstantly proclaim that gay unns threaten “tradnal” marriage. Fran Lebowz is rrect to remd that not all gay people (any more than all straight people) are beatg down the doors to what she lls “the two most nfg stutns on the pla, marriage and the ary. Sce that night, the good news on gay civil rights has kept g.
A Valente’s week New York Tim–CBS News poll, echog others over the past year, found that Amerins now favor marriage over separate-and-unequal civil unns as the legal optn for gay upl; ls than a third of the public believ that gay fai should be nied both. Each day the gay-rights bandwagon attracts unexpected recs the ve of the legal odd uple of Ted Olson and David Boi. Beg wh the gays, ’s clear, has bee a savvy (if not necsarily selfls) way to attach a halo to almost any troubled brand, om Goldman Sachs to some preccts of the Rupert Murdoch empire (though not the New York Post or Wall Street Journal, the only major daili the state that disdaed large ont-page headl after the Albany victory).