The happy couple

Mazel tov, Ellen and Portia! America's most famous lesbian couple (if not the entire world's) officially, legally tied the knot Saturday evening in an intimate ceremony at the couple's home in Beverly Hills. Only 20 family members and friends attended and while I feel a little yick about posting what are clearly paparazzi photos taken with a gianormous high-power lens, I do so because it's impossible to deny the love radiating off those two.

Since California began performing legal gay marriages in June, couples have said “I do” in droves. That one simple act is revolutionary in its ordinariness. We all want to love and be loved. We all hope to find the person to be ours until death do us part. And we all want that relationship to be recognized and accepted by our family, neighbors and government. So the more America (and the world) sees happy, healthy, perfectly normal gay and lesbian couples making a legal, lifelong commitment to one another, the less revolutionary and the more ordinary it will become. Which, after all, is how it should be. So congratulations, Ellen and Portia. May your lives together be happy and long and extraordinary. And thank you for making it all seem just a little more ordinary for the rest of us.