Reply #66: I have to admit

[TallahasseeGrannie]

when I see a couple I assume is gay, I am automatically interested. I don't know why. I guess because I realize they have put a lot on the line.

Not long ago my son and daughter went to the mall together. She has two babies. The two year old was walking and my son "wore" the infant for her in a front sling. Eventually her husband joined them and she went off to try on some clothes, leaving the two men with the two kids. (and my son still holding the infant) They both said they got a LOT of stares and negative comments as people assumed they were a gay couple with two kids.

On a related note...a colleague of mine (teacher) was given a letter of reprimmand and subsequently not re-hired (she was at a point in her retirement option where she had to petition to return for a sixth year of a special retirement/earning program in FL) because she sent her students to a website about an architect and GASP it had the word HOMOSEXUAL in it. It described one of the architects as being a HOMOSEXUAL.

sigh...