In response to Adam’s question: I think that first it would be good to point out the rhetorical strategy of Blankenhorn’s op-ed just to establish some common field of tropes. So, here we have a conservative guy (I’m not going into what that means, as you, Adam, have a much more detailed view [...]
The following op-ed by David Blankenhorn in the New York Times addresses his volte-face on the issue of gay marriage. Here is a soundbite: With each passing year, we see higher and higher levels of unwed childbearing, nonmarital cohabitation and family fragmentation among heterosexuals. Perhaps some of this can be attributed to the reconceptualization of [...]
Ever since I moved to Albania, I have been, for perhaps obvious reasons, interested in the gay scene of Tirana. There isn’t really one, or at least, not in the sense that I was used to in Holland, Belgium, or the States. Like in any Balkan country, being an LGBT(…) youth in Albania is not [...]