Journalist and gay activist Dan Savage often writes about the urban archipelago — the American cities that are comfortable, safe islands for gays and lesbians set amid a vast sea of countryside where being openly homosexual remains a chancy, even dangerous, proposition. However, after an election in which four more states approved same-sex marriage, perhaps that sea is receding.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-same-sex-marriage-20121112,0,3951638.story