I saw in the newspaper an ad for a gay and lesbian wedding show. This is good, this is progress, especially since it's being advertised in a daily broadsheet.

However, it will be even more progress when same-sex marriages don't get their separate wedding show - when they are marketed to in the excessively-giant annual wedding show just like opposite sex marriages.

I propose that the deadline for this changeover be next June 10, which, if I remember correctly, will be the one-year anniversary of the legalization of same-sex marriages. On this date, newspapers stop making a note of what percentage of marriages conducted at city hall have been same-sex, wedding magazines make their language and photography inclusive (and not by doing a special article about same-sex weddings every once in a while), and the wedding shows amalgamate.

This is not an attempt to hide same-sex marriage or sweep it under a rug, but to normalize it. A same-sex wedding needs to be no more and no less noteworthy than an opposite-sex wedding. We need to get to the level where a same-sex wedding is no more worthy of commentary than a woman who happens to have a career, or a successful professional who happens to not be WASP.