Driving through the city the other day, one of the newspaper headline posters yelled, "TV'S GAY KISS!" from the side of the road.  My rantometer just blew up instantly.  It's not as if it was the first such headline, it certainly won't be the last.  Every time there's a gay kiss on TV (here and in the UK, at least), the media has a field day.

Why?

Gay marriage is legal now.  And surely it isn't news that queers kiss?  Well obviously it is.  For all the irritating heterosexuals who go around pontificating benignly that they, "have no problem with homosexuals as long as they don't shove it in our faces," there's a great mob of idiots out there who can't even wait for a pride parade to take pot shots at us.

The time is long, long past when I'd have actually welcomed headlines like that.  Back when I wasn't even sure if I was queer or not and when news and literature about it all seemed rarer than hen's teeth.  The world's changed a little bit since then, for me at least.

If the sodding mainstream media gave as much attention to homophobic crimes and discrimination as it does to gay kisses, there'd be a clearer picture out there.  It's never going to happen though.  Sensationalist posters like the one that annoyed me so comprehensively will always attract readers - and completely the wrong sort too.  All that'll happen is that there'll be even more straight guys leering at lesbians, church elders tutting at moffies and a bunch of housewives gossiping.

They don't like us parading and partying in the streets and when we kiss, it's as if we're aliens or zoo animals. 

Get over it.