All you culture scolds bound to lose

On Maggie, a Girl of the Shrieks, and the current sitch

Anyone remember Maggie Gallagher? Back about a quarter-century ago, she was, to use George Harrison’s pithy phrase, a well-known drag, a rightwing columnist and unwed mother (a phrase I never write without thinking of Peggy Cass’ reading of it in Auntie Mame) who devoted much of her energy to “defending marriage” by trying to keep gay people from having…