No, seriously. The Daily Mail (and I can't believe I'm linking them but wev) wrote yesterday about an Italian couple who are suing a cruise line because they ended up on board at the same time as Italy's first gay cruise:
The couple, from Terni near Perugia, had booked the cruise last month from with Grimaldi Lines from Civitavecchia to the Spanish city of Barcelona.Hmm. You know, I think it was probably more uncomfortable for the gay people who knew this couple, rather than for the couple themselves. There is a big difference between being accidentally outed to people you know, and finding out that someone you know is gay. If the first situation is uncomfortable, that's because something very personal was suddenly made public without your intention and now you are forced to deal with it. If the second situation is uncomfortable, it's because you are a fucking homophobe.
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But when they arrived at the port, they found the ship surrounded by TV crews covering the 'Revuelta gay cruise' - Italy's first all homosexual cruise.
Lawyer Antonio Francesconi...said: "It is not a question of discrimination but one of lost satisfaction because no one had told them their holiday was at the same time as the gay cruise....My clients were also left embarrassed because among the passengers were people they knew and had no idea that were gay, which was uncomfortable for all parties."
Oh, but the couple insist they are not homophobic. Sorry, folks, but your actions belie your words - going so far as to sue the cruise line, to say you deserve financial compensation because this experience was just that terrible, makes that pretty clear. You'd think they had found themselves on a cruise ship full of zombies, or some shit. "OMG how could you DO THIS to us!! We are scarred for life!! The horror and disgust and goddamn lost satisfaction, you must pay us money to make us feel better and get the icky gay off of us!!"
Love that the article had to include this line: "Organisers insist the three-day cruise featured no scenes of excess." I have a feeling this couple would have considered two gay people standing within two feet of each other to be "excess". And you know, if it was like, a sex cruise, some sort of BDSM-on-the-Sea soiree - I could understand people being uncomfortable if they were not expecting it and had no intention of being a part of it (though I still don't think it would warrant a bloody lawsuit). But of course, it wasn't, yet this is another instance of people assuming them gays spend all day kissin' and screwin' and watchin' the pornography. I mean, what the fuck.
Attention stupid straight people: gay people are just people. You don't need to be afraid of them, or disgusted with them, or weirded out by them. And if you can imagine how many times a gay person is completely surrounded by straight people, I think once in a fucking while it's okay for that to be reversed. But apparently not for Mr. and Mrs. Yes-You-Are-Actually-Quite-Homophobic.
And you know what? I bet that cruise was the most fucking fun ever had on a ship. Your loss, bigots!
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