In “The M-Word: Why It Matters to Me,” Andrew Sullivan writes about gay marriage and his own experience when he realized he was gay. He begins explaining the kind of family he grew up: a family accustomed to conserving the tradition and rites of the society, in other words, a conservative family. Sullivan explains that it does not matter how successful you are in your life if you are not happy and cannot be married with your partner. When he was younger, he could not explain why his feelings were not the same as his straight friends. Sullivan thought he as wrong and because of that, he felt like he was in a different family, excluded of the society. Because he did not want to accept his sexuality, Sullivan became a sad person, a person with
