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.

Comments

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

I wish I had something coherent to add. Stuff like this pisses me off. If white, cisgendered, hetero-couples can do it in public any other couple of any other make-up ought to be able to do it unbothered.

I want to smack the people that got their knickers in twists because two people were kissing in public.

Sometimes, I really dislike where I live.

[dulcinbradbury.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I wish white, cisgendered, hetero-couples would do a little LESS in public, but, that's another argument.

We had white men in black suits hanging around public areas today holding "Honk if you support traditional marriage" and "Marriage = 1 woman and 1 man" signs. It made me angry in a way I can't begin to describe. I've seen protests where they are these angry, small-minded, scared people. It pisses me off, but, this was different somehow. This was white men in suits smiling and waving at people, trying to project an image of being UPRIGHT, TRUSTWORTHY guys. It made me so angry I could barely see straight.

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

I agree with you about the cisgendered, hetero-couples, too. Little pecks are fine, but tonsil hockey? Come on...

Those besuited guys just sound creepy.

[dulcinbradbury.livejournal.com]

They were. They also had weird red-orange sashes & I caught crosses of some sort. A later guess was perhaps Knights of Columbus.