The Unique Quality Of "Lifelong Heterosexual Monogamy" Ctd

A reader writes:

I found this piece of yours very moving, and I want to add to
the conversation on gay marriage my perspective as a child raised by a
gay couple (a "homogenate" as I call us, for short) in the U.S. in the
1980s.

If I had been born in the '90s or the '00s in the right state instead of the '80s, perhaps my biological mother and her lover, Mollie, could have had a civil union. That would have made their relationship simpler from a legal standpoint, for sure. But still, what...