what being gay looks like
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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.
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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Date: 2009-07-30 08:01 pm (UTC)I think I'll use my Lorca pen to write with today.
And yes, it is very scary how backward people can be. When I was in high school, my best friend (now dead from AIDS) was gay, and I remember how much some things that were said and done wounded him, and how it shifted his life.