Quote of the Day

"At least since the 1970s, gay men have been drawing invidious generational comparisons between gay boys in their teens and 20s — modern, liberated, enlightened, untouched by gay culture, “utterly indistinguishable from straight boys” and “completely calm about being gay” (as Andrew Holleran put it in his 1978 novel, “Dancer From the Dance”) — and older gay men, fanatically attached to an outdated gay culture and convinced that it is the only gay culture there is."

--David M. Halperin, historian, professor and author of "How to Be Gay," in a fascinating New York Times piece on style and the meaning of gay culture.  He takes on the notion that gay culture is dying (remember those recent "end of Judyism" articles?) and asks "why is it so important, particularly at this moment, that gay culture be pronounced, if not dead, then on its way out?"  Read it all here.