What it really boils down to is this: When you come home from China or Sydney or Marrakesh or Vancouver (the top-rated international destination in the Gay.com/CMI survey) and hold court at the local gay bar or gather with friends over dinner or swap travel tales in the locker room at the gym, you want to share your latest "life-changing" adventure (OK, maybe a bit of healthy one-upmanship is involved).
As you traverse the globe this year, be it on one of the small boutique airlines that became trendy in 2006 (Eos, MiMa, Privatair), in the forthcoming Airbus A380 (those mammoth super-long-haul planes finally go airborne this year after months of delays), on the new high-speed Qnghai-Tibet train, in a convertible cherry-red Mustang hogging Route 66, or via floating gay utopia (LGBT transatlantic and transpacific cruises are planned in 2007!), remember: There's really no limit to where we as out travelers go next.
Conservatives may worry, with good reason, that if laws restricting
gay parenting aren't locked in now, perhaps drawing strength from the momentum behind anti-gay marriage legislation, their time will soon have passed.
If statehouses were flooded with
gay marriage advocates, and judges were heard mumbling, "It's that damnable Take Back Your Government show on QTV," I might feel better.
Congress attests to the lack of acceptance of the needs of
gay men and lesbian women in the workplace.
It's an assertion that infuriates Jon Everett, interim director of BlackOut Unlimited, a
gay black social service organization in Cleveland, Ohio.
It was three years before the Lopatas told anybody else that Jim was
gay, even their closest friends.
Gay themes generally weren't talked about until the late 1970s.
Gay or straight, not all parents raise children equally.
Turning to "
gay" marriages, Kurtz turns back to a debate he had in the summer of 2001 with Andrew Sullivan and Jonathan Rauch, two advocates of "
gay marriage." They considered that same-sex marriage was the best way to "domesticate" sexually promiscuous
gays.
While most people know an individual who is
gay or lesbian, and might possibly consider that person a friend, changes in attitudes appear when the
gay or lesbian person becomes a member of the workgroup.
Part 4 deals with the period of the
gay and feminist revolution between 1969 to 1972 and with the impact of the New York Stonewall riots down the road in Philadelphia.