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WHEWASHG GAY HISTORY
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. [...] * fran lebowitz gay *
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However, she was forced to wa longer to nfs that she was gay bee such a nfsn uld have land her trouble. "One of the reasons people our age me to New York, if you were gay, was bee you were gay, " she rells to Mart Pretend It's a Cy.
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THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
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But we me here bee you uldn't live those plac, and so that created, you know, a kd of nsy of angry homosexuals, which is always good for a cy. ""I jt don't like domtic life, " she said, and has explaed separately an terview wh The Boston Spir that younger gay people "seem like straight people: they get married, they have children, they bang to you wh their strollers, they irrate you.
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?
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 *
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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.