~post by Salvador
The day I heard about the upcoming cover of The New Yorker, I couldn’t wait for it to arrive at our store. This was a day or two after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that DOMA was unconstitutional, so I was in a celebratory mood. Then the New Yorker released an early picture of this issue with a cover featuring Sesame Street‘s Bert and Ernie cuddling in front of a TV while watching the Supreme Court rule on DOMA. Our country had just experienced a major civil rights victory for gays and lesbians so this cover made me feel even more joyous.
Anyway, The New Yorker does include a very smart article you should read by Jeffrey Toobin who writes that the defeat of DOMA can be traced back to the defeat of Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
I’m keeping my copy of this issue of The New Yorker as a collector’s item and as a historical document about how the world was in 2013.
(PS – We’re sold out of this edition of The New Yorker, so it really is a collector’s item. Hang on to your copy.)
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