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This is the first 1,000 characters of 850 words (3.4 pages) in the essay titled the final steps into the ordinary “It’s hard sometimes to put your finger on the tipping point of tolerance. It’s not usually the Thurgood Marshalls and the Sally Rides, the big headlines and the major stories. It’s in the small incremental ways the world stops seeing differences as threatening…And it’s finally happening for gay men and lesbians. They’re becoming ordinary.” In the September issue of Newsweek magazine Ann Quindlen wrote an article entitled The Right To Be Ordinary. In this article Quindlen addresses the issue of gays and lesbians becoming a part of every day life. The article states that even though there is still a lot of discrimination in our country; being gay or lesbian over the years has become more widely accepted. The author effectively argues this point by her use of anecdotes, her tone, and by ?.Quindlen successfully uses anecdotes to show readers how gay men and lesbians are becoming more commonplace. She builds her credibility by use actual anecdotes that have really occurred and have been reported in many newspapers. On incident that she reported was the Supreme Court’s decision that the Boy Scouts had a right to keep out gay scoutmasters. This seems like a setback but it was actually a blessing in disguise. Even though the gay scoutmaster lost his trial, it was the Scouting officials that really took the beating. Men who had been Eagle Scouts for years began to send back their badges. The United Way would no longer support them and took away their funding. Cities... |
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Keywords: gay and lesbian couples, gay men, gay scoutmasters, being gay, newsweek magazine, gays and lesbians, boy scouts, anecdotes, marshalls, civil unions, eagle scouts, blessing in disguise, fellow human, september issue, article states, supreme courts, scoutmaster, public facilities