Read the year in review:

If one single story dominated the gay news cycle this year, it would be the roller coaster saga of California marriage equality. Even if you feel that marriage is a bourgeois heterosexual institution in which you have no interest, it’s undeniable that gay marriage has become a flash point for civil rights in general. And the passage of Prop. 8 has galvanized the gay community in a way not seen since the height of the AIDS crisis.