Andrew Sullivan announces today that gay culture has ended.

And on Yom Kippur no less!

Seriously, this is an important piece. It’s a crystallization of ideas that have been rumbling around in the gay intellectual zeitgeist for a while now — ideas that also keep cropping up, in different ways, every time I talk to my gay friends these days. It’s a piece about the inexorable changes in gay life brought about by increasing rights and acceptance, and how they’ve now created a confusing, but exciting, intermingling of gay generations.

Ok, now I’m off to walk to Yom Kippur services at a temple on Capitol Hill — a big, establishment temple that looked at the gay marriage case now pending before our state Supreme Court and decided to sign on to a crowded amicus brief filed by religious organizations in support of gay marriage. On my way to this religious service, where no one will care that I’m gay, I’ll pass the anachronism that is Thumpers, an old-school gay bar where everyone cares that you’re gay, though few people in my gay generation care about the bar itself anymore.