kerouac says

i remember telling my mother while i was still living at home that i thought my generation would look at gay rights the way hers did at civil rights for people of different races--that there'd be some sort of climactic major change, even if it wasn't completely adequate, and later we'd think of the time before as large darkness, as unjust.

i just can't tell you how happy i am about all this marrying and giving in marriage. maybe i'm cynical, but i didn't expect it to go on this long, or for other cities and towns to join in . . . or for anyone to agree that civil disobedience is called for here and now just like it was in the lunch counters and the buses in the sixties' south. for once, i am pleasantly surprised. amerika, you are not all bad.