February Not a Gay Month?

Lost amid the excitement over the Howell Raines -- Krystyna Anna Stachowiak nuptials announcement in Sunday's Times (demurely enough, it did not appear in the coveted upper-lefthand corner of the first page, an honor that went instead to the other media wedding of the week, Jeff Rosen -- Christine Stolba) was a certain absence: "celebrations", as they are now called, or gay weddings. Back in September when the Times started printing announcements of gay weddings and commitment ceremonies, it seemed at once like a minor revolution and, well, beside the point. But close readers of the page are now wondering, where's the beefcake? You'd have to go back to the January 18 commitment ceremony of David Myron Culver, the son of Debra A. Culver of Rochester and David E. Culver of Bergen, N.Y., and Gregory Scott Wollaston, the son of Katherine and Daniel Wollaston of Fredonia, N.Y., to find anything remotely fabulous. Does this mean Times editors are having trouble finding gay and lesbian couples with Ivy League diplomas? Or are February weddings just too tacky for words?