I felt no great emotion on hearing the news that gay couples can marry from today.
Yes, there will inevitably be asinine jokes about who will be the bride and who will wear the trousers
My only thought was that at one time in the 80s gays seemed to have their own very edgy culture that proved a strong and valuable contrast with the mainstream.
Pop music produced such heroes as Scots icon Jimmy Somerville, who sang dramatically about the hostility between his home town and gay-friendly London.
The drive for assimilation now seems to be complete.
If I was gay I would feel somewhat wistful for those days when the demarcation lines between gay and straight were very clear.
