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Imagine a world where almost everyone is gay. It’s fully accepted that women ought to fall in love and marry other women, and men should marry other men. Every movie and TV show depicts gay couples and families. In the park, everywhere you look, there are gay couples strolling hand in hand, lying on a blanket looking at the clouds, or just laughing together, having a good time. No one bothers them, because in this world, everyone assumes that everyone else is gay.

Because being gay is normal, g… Continue

Amy Kathleen Ryan is the author of VIBES, from Houghton Mifflin. Publisher's Weekly, in a starred review, hails VIBES as "an exceptional second novel" with "an abundance of wit." Most of what Amy writes is funny and fun, but the essay that follows isn't so funny, because this election is a very serious one.

A Serious Threat to American Democracy


This is perhaps the most important election in American history. Democracy itself is being threatened because the Bush Administration, with the help… Continue