LGBT people have handled their victory well. This is a dead issue -- deader even than interracial marriage, which took longer to win acceptance. America is much more placid about homosexuality than it used to be.
In my case, my experience with violent (if misdirected) homophobia convinced me to get on the bandwagon for same-sex marriage because whatever made life safer for LGBT people made life safer for me.
I also have experienced misdirected homophobia. I used to live next to this crazy religious right, uber-Bush supporting lady. When I was a teenager, I found out after one of our neighbors told us that she was going around the neighborhood telling people I was gay (I'm not btw) and to stay away from me. She also convinced her foster son to shoot one of our cats with a bb gun, which temporarily caused it to be unable to walk.
That experience revealed to me first hand how malignant and pervasive homophobia was (and is), as well as the maliciousness of the right in general.
Anyway, the rest of the story is that she poisoned her husband (he survived) and took the foster kids to Ohio. This was in about 2005/2006. I hear she had a heart attack years later but I presume she's still alive. I'm not gonna list her last name - but me and all her neighbors referred to her as "Crazy Rachel".
