The West Village made a natural starting point for the first of my many walking tours, since I was staying at Chelsea. This was also where the fictional Becky Bloomwood (of the Shopaholic series) lived with her then boyfriend Luke Brandon, and I was eager to experience the bohemian district in all its glory.
Imagine you are a gay man.
Imagine you are sitting in a subway train. Right opposite you is this gay couple, who were totally comfortable with themselves and were obviously contented with each other.
Now, what do you do? Do you steal looks at them? Or look on openly, in admiration? Do you smile to yourself? Or would you do everything but to look at them?
The answer, I think, is what would you do if the couple you are looking at is of the male-female variety. The so-called “normal” couple.
Perhaps, if enough of us treat the so-call alternative elements of society as being the norm, then perhaps one day it will become the norm.