Today, gay activists visit President Obama and the nation marks 40 years since the watershed event that is usually referred to as the Stonewall Rebellion: After police raided New York's most popular gay bar, gay people resisted for six consecutive days - ushering in the gay liberation phase of the gay civil rights movement and fixing the issue of gay civil rights on America's political map for all time. That Stonewall has hit its fourth decade is only part of the reason that the media are giving this anniversary attention. The other reason is that there is a sense of...