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By Giri Nathan
[vc_empty_space height="35px"]Let’s say that you are a 77-year-old bigot whose historically unmatched sporting feats are to be celebrated at a 50th-anniversary event in your home country. (I hope this requires a leap of the imagination along at least one axis.) My advice to you—cynical though it may seem to a sincere, fullhearted hater—would be to keep that bigotry in your mouth for just a few months leading up to the big day. It might be hard. But it’s okay. We’ll take your word that you still don’t care for gay people. We just don’t need all the steady reminders. It’s making all the event-planning way too complicated.