So, I want to feel good about the fact that gay love stories suddenly seem to be hot in Hollywood. Ellen Page is going to play a mechanic fighting for eligibility for her police detective partner's benefits in a movie based on a true story already told on film in a documentary. The Wachowskis have reportedly finished a script about a love story between an American soldier and an Iraqi man that spans the war there. I do think that movies about gay heroes of history are just as important as movies about folks like Malcolm X (and I would really love an amazing Harriet Tubman movie) or Crystal Lee Sutton. And I do think movies can play a useful role in dramatizing and humanizing the political struggles gay people are in the midst of. But I also hope that just as those political struggles, long though they continue to be, will ultimately just be a protracted transitional period, that the time when political narratives are the framework in which gay love stories can be presented is also ultimately just a phase. It's inevitable that gay families are going to involve particularistic challenges, like the roles of surrogate parents or sperm donors. But those narratives can also be primarily about families and politics, and I think once we get to a point where a political patina isn't necessary, it'll be a good thing, both because of what it means for where we've gotten to as a society, and for the range of gay love stories Hollywood lets itself tell.