New York Times: Small Town Gay America

[La_Serpiente]

Honestly, I feel that it is only a matter of time before the rest of America becomes tolerant towards gay rights. No doubt about it, this will send a splinter right through the Republican party.
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Small-Town Gay America
By ADAM GOODHEART

CHESTERTOWN, Md.

A year ago, I moved out of the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, the heart of the city's substantial "gay ghetto," where I'd spent most of the past decade. In Dupont Circle — a mile or so from the White House — the sight of same-sex couples holding hands is a common one, and by the time I left, it no longer surprised me to see two men pushing a baby carriage.

When I resettled in a small town across the Chesapeake Bay, on the rural eastern shore of Maryland, some of my friends — straight and gay alike — worried that I was moving to enemy territory, to a place where, as an openly gay man, I'd be shunned, or worse. But I quickly discovered that there are plenty of gays and lesbians here, too. You won't see couples holding hands on High Street, but a quiet tolerance prevails; when two men held their commitment ceremony in a nearby farming town a few weeks ago, there were no protesters, just 200 guests on hand to celebrate.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/23/opinion/23GOOD.html

[funkyflathead]

1. Chestertown, MD is representative of small town America?

Maybe he oughtta visit Iowa or Mississippi.

CHtown is too close to major Eastern urban centers to qualify.

[Ellen Forradalom]

2. Loudon County, VA is close to DC

but it's a world apart.