Commentary: As a biracial gay uple, we haven't faced much hate but we worry our kids uld - The San Diego Unn-Tribune

Contents:

• ONE INTERRACIAL GAY COUPLE TRI TO TRAVEL FEARLSLY — AND SOMETIM FDS ACCEPTANCE SURPRISG PLAC
• A ‘GAY HOMELAND’ UNDONE BY HOMOPHOBIA AND RACISM
• COMMENTARY: AS A BIRACIAL GAY UPLE, WE HAVEN’T FACED MUCH HATE BUT WE WORRY OUR KIDS ULD
• THEY WERE A GAY, TERRACIAL UPLE AN AGE OF RELENTLS BIGOTRY. THE TWO HAROLDS DIDN’T FLCH.
• HOLLYWOOD’S GAY POWER COUPL: SARAH PLSON AND HOLLAND TAYLOR, MORE

ONE INTERRACIAL GAY COUPLE TRI TO TRAVEL FEARLSLY — AND SOMETIM FDS ACCEPTANCE SURPRISG PLAC

Advertisements today routely pict terracial upl, straight and gay, along wh their children.

My hband and I, undnted by whatever dangers might face a gay terracial uple abroad, have traveled fearlsly enough to ighten my -laws.

A ‘GAY HOMELAND’ UNDONE BY HOMOPHOBIA AND RACISM

We disapprove of untri where ’s legal to stone gay people to ath.

Brendan and I don’t want to support the enomi of plac wh homophobic laws, like Myanmar, Kenya, or Sdi Arabia — the latter’s royal fay hardly needs our three-dollar bills.

We did go to the Maldiv, where they have whipped people for homosexual activy, but there seem to be separate l for lols and visors — I thk the tourists get safe words.

COMMENTARY: AS A BIRACIAL GAY UPLE, WE HAVEN’T FACED MUCH HATE BUT WE WORRY OUR KIDS ULD

But ambiguy and hospaly don’t mix well eher; gay travelers want the same treatment as straight on, and rorts and hotels want to acmodate the burgeong number of tourists who intify as LGBTQ. Related: What It’s like to Travel Ameri As a Gay Couple Livg an RV: Episo 2 of Travel + Leisure’s New Podst. Even gay-iendly spac the U.

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THEY WERE A GAY, TERRACIAL UPLE AN AGE OF RELENTLS BIGOTRY. THE TWO HAROLDS DIDN’T FLCH.

While rtrictg our travel largely to plac where homosexualy is legal but often ls visible has rced our strs — and nowhere the fn of hardship do say “havg to choose Curaçao over Jamai” — we’ve actually had more nontatnal experienc at home New York, where the laws are some of the most liberal this si of Amsterdam.

David and Keh's romance helps enpsulate what was like livg as a gay person the early 2000's, and shows how sometim posive change happens and Keh fight untls tim throughout the seri and break up, but always end up g back together.

HOLLYWOOD’S GAY POWER COUPL: SARAH PLSON AND HOLLAND TAYLOR, MORE

It was a major step visibily to see an terracial gay relatnship on televisn, and the two grow together and start their own fay throughout Six Feet Unr's five seasons on the air. The seri revolved around a group of black gay men livg Los Angel, and promently featured issu facg that muny, cludg datg, same-sex parenthood, HIV and AIDS awarens, and homophobia.

We watch as Wa out as a gay man, and fac the harsh reali that n sometim acpany that procs for black men.

HBO's Lookg only aired for two seasons, but I found to be an pecially powerful, joyful, and realistic look to what 's like to be gay man morn society. Recent remarks by a jtice of the top urt had ed some ncerns that gay marriage and terracial marriage uld be overturned by a possible future urt newt ph to dify the right to gay and terracial marriage to law me after the nservative-domated Supreme Court June overturned the nstutnal right to abortn, which had been legal natnwi for four s. 9, 1986, at the height of anti-gay hysteria durg the AIDS crisis, a biracial gay uple om Reno, Nev., ma a remarkable announcement: They were gog to create what some lled “a gay homeland” the Nevada Schoonmaker and Aled Parkson planned to name the muny Stonewall Park, after the 1969 uprisg New York that lnched the gay rights movement.