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While I’m out running among the gays, the straights, the farmers and the other progressives, I’ll be quietly celebrating with Iowa.

Youngblood Theatre and the UWM Department of Theatre read epilogue to “The Laramie Project” along with acting companies worldwide.

It’s sweltering in the Turner Hall Ballroom as cast members of Naked Boys Singing! run through tech rehearsals in their underwear. The problem at the moment is the wireless microphones. The cast members have never played to such a cavernous space in a five-year Chicago-based and road tour, so where exactly do you attach the mics when the players in this cabaret-like revue will be in the buff?

All lesbians and gays really want is equality. And mostly, they would like to just be normal, all-American married people – maybe even with a house, a yard, some kids and a dog. To most gays, a “boring” married life would mean people have finally stopped seeing them as different. And who wouldn’t want that kind of excitement?

Earlier this month, the Iowa Supreme Court voted unanimously to uphold a lower court decision to allow same-sex couples to marry. In less than two weeks, the state will begin to officially recognize unions between homosexual partners. It brings me great pride to see my home state make such a momentous (and surprising) decision. There [...]

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“I’m almost ready to up and leave Iowa and move back to Minnesota,” one woman said angrily.
“There’s something about it happening in the heartland that has got to accelerate this process for the whole country,” said another.
On April 4, the Iowa Supreme Court overturned the ban on same-sex marriages, [...]