"The Community"

I think Kathryn Lehman is still one of the worst people in the world. You see, back when she was helping to write DOMA all the lesbians were icky perverted bulldykes. Now that there are some normal gay people and, oh, yes, she's a lesbian, she's rethought.

Things were pretty different in Lehman's world in 1996. She was engaged to a man. Same-sex marriage wasn't legal anywhere. And the public perception of what it meant to be gay wasn't anything like it is now, she says.

"There was nobody married, it wasn’t allowed anywhere," Lehman recalls. "The view of gay people ... it wasn't Ellen [DeGeneres]. It wasn't Neil Patrick Harris. It was kinky sex and women riding around on motorcycles without shirts on. That was sort of the view that the community projected as well."

"It wasn't people that you know, people that you work with, people just like everybody else."

I''m cranky this evening, so, also, too, fuck you Bill Clinton.