>Gay culture is of course in many ways influenced by the male take on sexuality but that never seemed to be more or less prone to pedophilia or to individuals not being able to behave in a civilized fashion. I think as gay kids are able to grow up less traumatized you are going to see the cultural differences between gay and "straight" culture diminish greatly ( I think we've already seen that happening)

I agree with you on this. The community I live in, which has been diverse in many ways for decades, has several families with same-sex parents. Their lives don't seem to be terribly different from those of the other families around. They go to work, they play, they raise kids, they worry about paying for college.

Tamar