If gay people are to live their lives, it will not be by mimicking a society that only accepts relationships that follow its rules—rules that it does not actually honor. That society has insisted that its love is somehow better or more real than that of gay people, which is an obvious untruth. That society—fearful that in others’ freedom it will see its own limitations, deceptions, or envy—has demonstrated prohibitions and hatred for unconventional forms of bonding and love that have persisted for millennia against all odds.
