Gus & Elmer - The NYT has a deviously sweet profile of Gus and Elmer, an older gay couple, who after being together for six decades, decided to elope to Canada. What a nonthreatening way to show that there ARE gay couples out there in de facto marriages, and that providing a societial context for them to be open about their relationships isn't really going to hurt anything. It seems to me that the notion of gay marriage seems a lot more palatable to straight people if you're talking about elderly people being committed and offering each other companionship. There's a big difference between that scenario and thinking about a "marriage" between two hot young stallions who decide after dating for a short period that they want to be husbands (sorry, Reichen and Chip). But even Bush is now trying to walk the fine line between the ick factor and state's rights.