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He's actually talking about a LOT of men in the larger cities. There is a segment of the queer community who don't support it for political reasons (queers shouldn't try to fall in line with "straight" society, now is not the time for this fight, no one should be getting married...), but a there are a whole lot of men in particular (I don't really know of any women) who are apathetic and are pretty much just the way Cheeks depicts here. A lot of people, of course, DO support the fight/cause, and I would imagine a much higher percentage in smaller towns fall into that category. But when you live in San Francisco or LA (or, I would imagine, NY) and have the luxury of living somewhere that there are literally hundreds of other queers when you go out, it's harder sometimes to feel like you don't have civil rights. You feel 'normal', your life is 'normal', no one is trying to fire you or kick you out of your house or tell you you can't have insurance, and you don't want to get married anyway, because then you'd have to stop going home with those cute boys, so why worry about it?