what being gay looks like

[rm]

via reannon:

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12811907
A gay couple faces police action for kissing in public in Salt Lake City.

http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_12790543
A gay couple is kicked out of a restaurant in El Paso, also for kissing.


I keep trying to formulate a sentence to go here, but I don't really have the time. But this is what being gay looks like when it's not on your television, when it's not in New York City or San Francisco or what is truly not that much more than a handful of cities, when you're not in a neighborhood where it's safe to be queer, when you're totally average and when you're living in America.

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It sickens me. My best friend recently began dating another friend of mine (both females) and they are the happiest I've ever seen them in relationships (this being the first serious lesbian relationship they've been in). One of their first dates was to the Renaissance Fair, where they had to deal with a man telling his wife not to stand too close to them in line or she'll "go gay", and later they took a self-portrait of themselves and sent it to us, not knowing that the lady sitting in the bleachers behind them was making a very ugly face into the camera.

I really wish people would just get over the bullshit and accept that love is love, period. But then that means they'd have to accept that Black is just another color, too...