Friday, July 07, 2006

I Thought He Was Talking To Me

My aunt's kitchen. The third of July. My friend Mark and I are standing at the counter. My uncle looks in our direction and says, "So, what're you doing for the Fourth, Sissy?"

As my uncle had never before been overtly homophobic, I was taken aback and left at a loss for words.

My aunt... his sister.... spoke up from where she was standing, right behind me: "We're just going to the parade is all."

2 comments:

Kitty Russell said...

It's all true! I thought to myself "Christ, that George has a lot of damn nerve!" Lo and behold he was talking to his own Sissy!

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