In the NY Times

In todays NY Times I found one of the best articles I have seen written in a long time. By Frank Rich of all people! The Times is not know for it's liberal view point but Frank Rich has been a vocal proponent of Gay rights. The full article is too long to post here but I highly recommend reading it.
Here is an excerpt:

40 Years Later, Still Second-Class Americans

By FRANK RICH
Published: June 27, 2009

LIKE all students caught up in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, I was riveted by the violent confrontations between the police and protestors in Selma, 1965, and Chicago, 1968. But I never heard about the several days of riots that rocked Greenwich Village after the police raided a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn in the wee hours of June 28, 1969 — 40 years ago today.

Then again, I didn’t know a single person, student or teacher, male or female, in my entire Ivy League university who was openly identified as gay. And though my friends and I were obsessed with every iteration of the era’s political tumult, we somehow missed the Stonewall story. Not hard to do, really. The Times — which would not even permit the use of the word gay until 1987 — covered the riots in tiny, bowdlerized articles, one of them but three paragraphs long, buried successively on pages 33, 22 and 19.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/opinion/28rich.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss