The End Of Gay History?

Dan Zak fears young gays are forgetting their forebears:

For a demographic that was once so twined with mortality, the gayshave gotten good (or have they always been good?) at focusing on thenow, the young, the ephemeral. Today's gays — the gays of mygeneration, the millennials, the 20-somethings — are post-gay, or New Gay,loosed from the closet, free of the diving bell of AIDS-as-executioner,left to skirmish over (or ignore) petty legislative battles on astate-by-state or school-by-school...