Race is a noun and Gay is a verb

[The Straight Story]

I posted that elsewhere tonight and wanted to expand on it.

I think that is, sadly, how things are seen here in the US these days.

My best friend, my wife's best friend, and my brother-in-law are all gay men. It all seems normal enough to me, no freakin big deal. I have spent the night at my friend's house, my wife has spent nights at a time in a cabin with her best friend in CA while I was here in Ohio. No biggie.

But talk to some folks, RW relatives and friends I have, and gay is a verb. Me spending the night at a gay man's house, traveling across country with him and his partner, sharing a motel room...well, it leads to thoughts of action. Yeah. We sat in our room and talked politics and wrote computer programs. How's that for action??

It is an action, being gay. It's men having sex with men or women with women. It is an action, and not a state of existence/being.

And that, I think, is what we need to overcome in the gay rights' column in the US.

We need to change that way of thinking, and to get our candidates to see it the same way.

I'm a straight white male. Is that an action, or is that just who I was born as? Do people, when they think of me, think about me having sex with my wife? Or do they simply see me as a person?

We will get there one day. One day at a time. We may not agree all the time on issues, but one thing i can agree on is - gay is not a verb, it is a noun.

[donheld]

1. You are correct

It can also be and adjective :evilgrin:

[The Straight Story]

2. I know that, and you know that

Why don't our candidates and the rest of America seem to know that?

[xchrom]

3. i cannot Be without Being gay.

i cannot live in this world without having sex.

the first problem is that i still have to have others decide for me what is best for my body.
not that i do what they decide -- but that boils it down.

i can't have married sex -- so i have what sex i can.

the second is a different problem -- hillary's answer -- it's inauthentic -- and everyone -- conservative or liberal{at least many liberals} have a very hard time with inauthentic.

it isn't trust worthy.

[cboy4]

4. Isn't it about time you start a thread explaining why you are so

obsessed with homosexuality?

Not that I would believe a word of it.

But others might buy into your "story."

edit: typo