Day: October 5, 2012

by Jon Marcus

I am a single gay man. I date, and I have sex. I’m not bipolar, or a murderer, or a drug addict, and I don’t toss snappy punchlines into every conversation. For all the groundbreaking gains that gay characters have recently made on TV, I don’t see myself anywhere onscreen when I go to the movies or flip through channels. Equality is about a lot of things for me, and in a time when I see proliferating ads for “quirky” or “unconventional” lead characters on TV, I would like to jump past the part where we fight for “gay” to be another quirk, right to the place where it’s so normal that seeing us kiss isn’t still controversial.

I didn’t get beaten up as a kid, and I haven’t faced a lot of overt discrimination in my life, but