Warum gibt es in den Vereinigten Staaten keinen "National Gay-Rights Leader"?

"That movement for equality was later overshadowed by efforts to combat AIDS in the 1980s and early 1990s. And AIDS itself is a reason leaders were hard to come by. 'AIDS wiped out a whole generation,' Mr. Eisenbach said. 'What you have is a vacuum. And that still has not been filled.'"

Forty years after the Stonewall Riots, Jeremy W. Peters in The New York Times explores why "Gay people have no national standard-bearer."