JMG HomoQuotable - Frank Bruni
"A kiss is nothing. On the sidewalks, in the park, I see one every few
minutes, a real kiss, lip to lip. It barely registers. It’s as
unremarkable as a car horn in traffic, as an umbrella in rain. And yet a
kiss is everything. A kiss can stop the world. The football player
Michael Sam recently demonstrated as much. [snip] I still sometimes feel
panic when my partner, meeting me in a restaurant, gives me a
perfunctory kiss on the lips. And yet I feel robbed — wronged — if I
sense that an awareness of other people’s gazes and a fear of their
judgment are preventing him from doing that. We shouldn’t be bound that
way, and on the day of the pro football draft, in front of the cameras,
Sam rightly declared that he wasn’t. He did so with a gesture at once
humdrum and heroic, a gesture that connects everyone who has been in
love and affirms what every love shares: physical tenderness, eye-to-eye
togetherness. It was something to behold. It was something to hold on
to." -
Frank Bruni, writing for the
New York Times.
Read the full essay.
Reposted from Joe Jervis
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