On gay marches, the peace process, and others.

Some time ago, an interesting article appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle describing a 15,000-strong gay pride parade in Tel Aviv. The story also spoke about a gay Palestinian who grew up in the US, where he trained as an attorney. Khaled, who had just recently come to live on the West Bank, participated in an earlier, smaller march of Israeli and Palestinian gays. Waving a Palestinian flag through the streets, an almost bemused sense of wonder prodded him to ask, rhetorically, how this event had even been possible. At the head of this march a group were carrying banners in He