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...tour, founded by Cyndi Lauper last year, is highly unusual in that its main purpose, besides entertaining crowds, is to rally for gay, lesbian and transgender rights. The tour features a diverse cast of performers - including the B-52s, Tegan and Sara, the Indigo Girls, Rosie O'Donnell and Regina Spektor - onstage for nearly five hours...
...There's never really been this kind of organized gay-themed tour before, and its very existence, during what many urban crusaders consider a postgay era - a "whatever" age in which identity politics are on the wane - seems quaint and comforting. When the Indigo Girls hit the stage for True Colors at Radio City Music Hall recently, their set of barnstorming folk brought back warm memories of early 1990s pink-triangle-bedecked marches, a period when the movement seemed in overdrive...
Which raises a delicate question: Will gay men be happy in conventional, monogamous marriages? Or will gay marriage look different? Research has found that gay and lesbian couples have many strengths: they divide housework more equitably than straight couples, and they are less belligerent in arguments. But gay men are also less likely to be monogamous, and it's not clear that legal marriage will change that. Even AIDS did not; according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hiv cases among gays have increased in recent years even as transmission among nongays has decreased...
Opponents of same-sex unions used some of these points to justify marriage inequality. They were wrong. But now a great sociological experiment begins: Will marriage change gay people or will gay people change marriage...