No more Mr. Nice Gay
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2008/11-21/view/editorial/13637.cfm (http://www.washingtonblade.com/2008/11-21/view/editorial/13637.cfm)
KEVIN NAFF
11/21/2008
AS WANDA SYKES put it last weekend in her coming out remarks, "They pissed off the wrong people."
Average citizens, many of them straight, are reacting with disbelief and anger following California's passage of Proposition 8 — and the Arkansas adoption ban and same-sex marriage bans in Florida and Arizona.
In the absence of an identifiable national gay rights leader, everyday people stepped into the leadership vacuum and produced marches in hundreds of places large and small on Saturday. An estimated 5,000 took to the National Mall in D.C. to demonstrate against the anti-gay ballot initiatives that passed on Election Day.