TONIGHT: Gays In The Gallery For SOTU

The White House has invited two lesbians to take honored seats in the gallery at tonight's State Of The Union address. The women represent two separate issues likely to be mentioned as successes of the Obama administration.

Colonel Ginger Wallace, an openly lesbian intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force, will be one of two openly gay people in the First Lady's gallery seats tonight, when President Obama delivers his State of the Union address for 2012. The second openly gay guest is Lorelei Kilker, an environmental chemist who was part of the government's class action suit to secure equal wages for women. Wallace, of McLean, Virginia, and Kilker of Brighton, Colorado, will be guests at a reception at the White House and then travel to the Capitol with the First Lady to sit in a special section of the House balcony to hear the president's speech.

Colonel Wallace's wife will watch the speech with the spouses of other honorees at the White House. It's a new world, folks.