Imagine the impact of flipping through the yearbook and seeing this ad. I also have initiated articles on gay and lesbian issues in the school paper written by student reporters. Early in the 1990s I wrote a note to the Sunshine Committee and said I felt left out and reluctant to donate my twenty dollars to celebrate births and marriages since my relationship with Garrett has never been celebrated. Well, what do you know, we got a beautifully wrapped gift. We have the stars.
Progress can be slow, but the progress has been phenomenal in eight years.
People are essentially fair-minded. That's the message of Alan Wolfe's recent book about the American middle class, One Nation, After All. Homosexuality is a new idea for people to integrate into their concepts of friend, colleague, neighbor. We have to help them by our honesty. Nobody can do it for us.