"Over the last quarter-century the love that dared not speak its name turned into a veritable motor mouth"

"Over the last quarter-century the love that dared not speak its name turned into a veritable motor mouth, to a point where the average American, according to an astonishing Gallup Poll last month, thinks that about 25 percent of the population is homosexual. Hardly. But that perception underscores how visible gay people have become. And familiarity changes everything."

--Frank Bruni, The New York Times