We all deserve a right to be ordinary and boring

THE ARTIST David Hockney thinks gay people today are boring because they “want to be ordinary — they want to fit in.” 

He has never wanted to marry a man. “No, no, no,” he told The Guardian, appalled at the idea. “Bohemia was against the suburbs. And now the suburbs have taken over.”

Hockney is 77. When he was young, being gay was illegal. The idea of marriage equality would have been outlandish in an era where you could still be thrown in jail just for being yourself. Laws made by and for the sexual majority set the sexual minority apart, and drove them underground.