Gay men as old as me can truthfully say that in the last 50 years, our freedom to love has expanded far beyond what we imagined.
We sat on the beds of our lovers as they died from AIDS while congressmen advocated corralling all of us into concentration camps.
Indeed, it was still illegal to have sex with other men in most places. True, Bill Clinton allowed us to serve in the military but only as long as we stayed in the closet.
Many people regarded the long-unthinkable notion of gay marriage as our priority. Today, you can legally be a married gay man in the military with children.
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