I Support Gay Marriage [Gay Marriage]

Being very much involved in theater, I have many gay friends, and I love each one of them as much, if not more than those who are straight. They are very creative, loving, and supportive. My thought has always been that we should have no say in what happens at home. Who people choose to spend their lives with. It's really none of our business. It doesn't really effect us in our own personal lives. Before he "came out" I dated someone who was gay. I had a feeling that something was different about him, and I encouraged him to talk to me. He was shy, so it took him a while. In the meantime, he and I had a very loving relationship. Then finally, while we were cuddling on the couch, he broke down in tears. He was very apologetic and told me that although he loved me very much, that he was gay. I held him close and told him that he had my support and that my love for him would never die, whether we continued the relationship we had or not. He appreciated my feelings we remained close friends until he died just a few years ago. As he continued his life, he met a young man who was very special and they got married, with me participating in the wedding. I was very happy and proud of them both, and they knew it.

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karinaal · 70-79, F

I too support gay marriage and that guy people in all ways should have the same rights as heterosexual people but there is one thing in what you write that I think is strange.
You say about the gay persons you know that, “They are very creative, loving, and supportive”.
Of course I would not dream of doubting what you say and I also have noticed that it very often is in this very positive way gay people are described in the media but this makes me wonder if I really am the only person who knows/has known gay people who could never be described with words as “creative, loving, and supportive” or all the other lavishly praising superlatives that often are used about gay people.
I live in the country that first of all made gay marriage legal and where being homosexual is socially accepted. We have for instance had several cabinet ministers who were gay and openly lived together with their same-sex partners. I know several gay people, have a couple of gay friends and have worked together with a few gay people and in my experience there is really no difference between heterosexual and gay people when it comes to being or not being “very creative, loving, and supportive”.
The most uncooperative and quarrelsome colleague I ever had was a lesbian and one of the most caring, supportive and also highly competent superiors I ever had was a gay man but I very much doubt that their sexual orientation was what made one of them a very unpleasant colleague and the other a good superior.

silentwriter180 · 51-55, F

The reason I said that, is that those are the biggest qualities that I've personally seen in the gay people that I know. I'm sure there are many other qualities in them as well, I don't doubt that. And, yes I do see those in others. I just wanted to share those that I've seen the most of in my gay friends.

HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M

Why should heterosexuals be the only ones that can experience the pleasure of divorce?

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