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Shadow Footprints

Wanderings in Virtu and Verity.

Thursday, June 24, 2004

Queer Marriage

My Big Fat Funky Queer Marriage by Richard Goldstein
The visionary potential of any minority depends in no small part on its persecution. When that burden is lifted, banality is a real possibility. But marriage doesn't create this condition. Nor will it turn us into Stepford spouses. If gays see normalcy as a prospect, it's because the norm is expanding to include us. And, yes, the meaning of marriage is changing.