the final steps into the ordinary

marcus Snell English 101 1:00-1:50 11/6/00 The Final Steps Into The Ordinary “It’s hard sometimes to put your finger on the tipping point of tolerance. It’s not usually the Thurgood Marshalls and the Sally Rides, the big headlines and the major stories. It’s in the small incremental ways the world stops seeing differences as threatening…And it’s finally happening for gay men and lesbians. They’re becoming ordinary.” In the September issue of …

…who happen to be gay have become unremarkable.” Quindlen said this at the end of her editorial speaking of the guy who won “Survivor” and how he was a gay man. He was only an ordinary man who made his way to the top by succeeding. It just so happened that he was gay, big deal. He was just another person wining a million dollars because of his mental and (in his case) physical strength.