Gay Politics.

The dynamic of homosexual politics in the 1990s consisted of gays and lesbians trying to establish themselves in mainstream American life and the efforts of conservatives to resist such a fundamental cultural change. Many Americans, meanwhile, seem to have drifted toward a somewhat uneasy accommodation with homosexuality. According to a Time/CNN poll conducted in 1998, 64 percent of those questioned believed that homosexual relations were acceptable, while 48 percent thought them morally wrong. Twenty years earlier, in 1978, 53 percent of Americans thought homosexual relations were morally unacceptable and only 41 percent found them permissible. Indisputably, there were more gay men and women visible in American society during the 1990s than at any other time in U.S. history. "I think we've done a great deal of persuading people that we are not a countercultural force," explained Andrew Sullivan, the author of Love Undetectable Notes on Friendship, Sex...