Straight

by Seth King

I guess what I’m really wondering is this: deep down, what really is masculinity, and why does it seem to be so fragile?

the things that really hurt are the gestures, the stares, the narrowed eyes. You can make someone feel like shit without doing anything at all.”

‘Loving the sinner and hating the sin’ is a crock of shit, because you can’t insult someone and then tell them you support them only partially.

you cannot question your feelings for another human. I cannot question the physical reaction that flashes through my body whenever I see him;

if he knows the strobe lights are jealous of the colors in his soul;

nobody gets to decide whether or not this is right, because I feel the rightness of it in every moment of the dreamy days and miraculous nights we spend together.

Because choosing to love is never wrong. Love is the cleanest thing in the world.

love does not exist between men and women. Love does not exist between blondes and brunettes. Love does not exist between Caucasian people and Asian people. Love exists between humans.

You don’t get to choose who you love in this world, but you do get to choose what you do about it.

Because bars can be shot up by hateful maniacs and epithets can be hurled in restaurants and ignorance can be spewed from pulpits, but the world will still never be able to assassinate the love that sometimes blooms between two human souls.