30 October, 2013

Gawker Kicks Open the Closet, but Its Disclosure Barely Reverberates - NYTimes.com

Gawker Kicks Open the Closet, but Its Disclosure Barely Reverberates - NYTimes.com: Aha. Cue the innuendo, the salacious follow-ups and the specter of mainstream media outlets picking up the item with a pair of tweezers. Except after the post was published, there was nothing but crickets, other than a piece in Slate wondering aloud why Gawker had bothered. Otherwise, there was no significant pickup, and no broad expression of outrage.

We know why: The culture has moved on. People see other people who happen to be gay at their workplaces, in their schools and on their televisions. Somewhere along the way, what was once a scarlet letter became just another consonant in the personal r�sum�. And now that gay marriage is a fact of life, a person’s sexual orientation is not only not news, it’s not very interesting.