"Krambuhl, who was sipping lemonade enriched with vitamin V, said the mainstream might be overrated.
"'There's nothing to be gay about any more,' he lamented.
"A lot of people here aren't gay or lesbian at all," said Rick Collins, a computer consultant from San Francisco. "We've become somewhat assimilated, I guess."
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Crowds gathered on Pink Saturday, among Dykes on Bikes and beer-bongs. Once fierce, the LGBT community implores mainstream leadership to acknowledge its newly adopted brand of normalcy... while an indistinct sense of ennui, name-brand things, and married couples with children settle on a community that seems to realize that it left behind its soul in exchange for acceptance.
When all is said and done, the world wasn't changed by the gays as much as the gays were changed.
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Assimilated LGBTs on the Cusp of Ironic Acceptance
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