GAY MARRIAGE ISN'T POLITICAL DEATH. Uncivil Union by Andrew Sullivan
Post date 11.11.04 | Issue date 11.22.04 It would be hard to understate the pervasive despair that gripped gay Americans as the results of November 2 began to trickle and then flood into their consciousness. With the victory of eleven state amendments banning relationship rights, and with the religious right exultant that its opposition to homosexuality had brought an already anti-gay administration to power with a new mandate, the mood tipped close to dread. The playwright Larry Kramer, with his usual gift for moderation, told a packed house in downtown Manhattan on Sunday night, "I hope we all realize that, as of November 2, gay rights are officially dead. And that, from here on, we are going to be led even closer to the guillotine." He was not the only one feeling that way....
Michael Pugliese