No toasters for this group
I have to report on this,
because the controversy is about the Gay
Days celebration in my hometown. Of course, since it is Orlando/Walt Disney
World, we attract a lot of people from out of town. The locals may not do the
‘mouse’, but the pool parties, the ladies events (especially the
night at Club XS), and the comradery are not to be missed. Unless of course
you are a high school band from Nebraska that is scheduled to play at Disney
that week...then your parents have to make sure that we don’t rub off
on you! I guess they haven’t watched Queer Eye.....they don’t know
that the politically correct view is that gays are friendly, polite, chic, and
just plain cool. Listen up all you straight bible-toting mid-westerners....the
stereotype of gays trying to convert your children is wrong. The toaster was
just a joke! Children and teens are just baggage–we don’t want them....we
want you–the parents!! Women with children are so sexy....they know how
to nurture and give.
Okay, I’m just kidding about everything except the mother bit. I really
do think that mothers are very, very sexy!
We are real people...and great characters
Tired of all the syrupy ‘L Word is so great’ type of reviews and
articles. Check out Debbie’s column
in the Philadelphia Daily News. And while I agree that the girls on The L Word
are not typical of the women that I hang out with here in Florida, it sounds
as if she hangs out with a really boring crowd! Although my group does not include
any of the really ‘cool’ characters that populate The L Word, some
of the characters (my friends!) in this town include these women who would be
deserving of a character on a television show:
- the police officer who also has to deal with being a lesbian, and manages
to be ‘out’ in an all-boys club
- the M-F transsexual who is also dealing with being a lesbian–to their
parents, children, bosses, friends, and to the lesbian community that is even
more discriminating than the straight world
- the lesbian who is so devoted and loves her disabled ex-husband so much
that she can’t financially or emotionally separate from him--and why
should she? Don’t we believe that Love is gender-less?
- the Physical Education teacher. Yes, I know this is a terrible stereotype,
but if it is your job choice, should your sexuality be a problem? an issue?
of concern to anyone else but you?
- the woman who is so devoted to her children that she never goes out, never
parties in the “Queer as Folk” way. She is reading stories to
her children, helping with homework, and juggling twenty things at once. Yes,
she does seem a bit dull and boring to the outside world, but she is devoting
her time to the next generation–and you know, that is what really matters
in the long run
- the 30 year old dealing with cancer and being alone at the same time
- The woman who has ‘played the game’ of society, and waited her
whole life (so far) to experience the love that she only dared to wish for.
The joy of finding herself kissing a woman’s body; the ecstasy of feeling
a woman’s hands just there....just so.....
These women are your mothers, and your grandmothers. And we are phenomenal women!
Much better than the flat characters on television. But isn’t that the way
it always is?
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