...And When Gay History Happens to Straight Players

I, too, can swallow a lot of egomania if it produces results like bringing marriage equality to 38.3 million residents. In their new book Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality spotlight hoggers Ted Olson and David Boies bray about their success with the Prop 8 case at the Supreme Court (while not dwelling on the $6 million fee they earned for their noble quest), but the real triumph was Roberta Kaplan's arguing US vs. Windsor, thus overturning DOMA. That was the gamechanger -- a much bigger deal and a story far better told by lesbian New Yorker staffer Ariel Levy in the magazine's fact piece, The Perfect Wife: How Edith Windsor fell in love, got married, and won a landmark case for gay marriage.