Friday, February 24, 2012

This Won't Convince Anyone

I understand this guy's frustration.

But if I were a talented gay hair stylist who wanted to marry my partner of 15 years, and I had a chance to style the hair of New Mexico's anti-marriage-equality governor on a regular basis, I'd do it, and use the time to get to know her better, and to talk to her about the issues.

Those kinds of connections and relationships are an opportunity, not an indignity.

1 comment:

Matthew said...

"Those kinds of connections and relationships are an opportunity, not an indignity."

Certainly speaking from my own experience, this is true. Interacting with and coming to know gay people blew away the preconceptions and illusions that I had held from my teenage years. I saw that they were just like me - not the Other but rather that we were all part of the same family.