What really bugs me about this conversation, and all those like it, though, is that marriage equality is often the sole basis on how to weigh progress. Otherwise, any conversation about a public figure’s sexuality would reflect that on its own. A person’s gayness isn’t a talking point, and his alleged gayness ought never be since it takes us back to an era when it was culturally acceptable to shame a gay person as a curious oddity.”įor the record, it’s still culturally acceptable to shame a gay person as a curious oddity. However, Brandon Ambrosino recently lent credence to Carr’s possibly misguided remarks by noting, “Carr’s is a welcome reminder of the progress we often forget we’ve made. Months ago, I read David Carr’s essay in which he asserted “now that gay marriage is a fact of life, a person’s sexual orientation is not only not news, it’s not very interesting.” I chalked that up to him being a straight, white guy who didn’t know any better.
