No, not Warhol… On the historic day that the first legal gay marriages in the United States were performed, the man who has done perhaps more than any other American to get same-sex marriage legalized, Andrew Sullivan, did a reading, Q&A and book signing at the Barnes & Noble in Chelsea. The event was in support of the new edition of his 1997 anthology, “Same Sex Marriage: Pro and Con.”
The crowd was mostly gay, apparently liberal, and not the slightest bit hostile (rival blogger Josh Marshall was there, and even he was nice). Andrew read two of his own essays from the book and talked about how he never thought he’d live to see the day that same-sex marriage was legal in the United States. As he pointed out, when someone you know gets married you say “congratulations”; you’d have to be a real asshole to tell such a person to sod off.
My favorite moment of the evening: when asked about whether he sees liberal bias in media coverage of the gay-marriage issue, Sullivan pointed out that CNN calls constantly to talk about the book while Fox News never does. Then he said this:
I mean, I didn’t exactly get a tough interview from Anderson Cooper. [beat] Oh wow, nobody got that.
That’s why we love Andrew. I introduced myself at the end and he thanked me for sending him a few Begala and Derbyshire award nominees over the years.
Posted by Stephen Silver at May 17, 2004 10:25 PM