Sunday, June 13, 2004
Every year since William Weld became governor of Masachusetts, he and his successors have sent greetings to Gay Pride or declared Gay Pride Day or done something to acknowledge and honor the gay and lesbian population. Until this year, until this governor. Mitt Romney maintained complete silence. The ten percent or so of the Commonwealth's citizens who are gay and lesbian are obviously not on his radar, not worthy of a simple act of respect. Given his behavior during the same-sex marriage saga, he isn't going to get the GLBT vote anyway, so I'm sure he feels, "What the hell."
Quiet day for us and one where Fritz is showing more and more vitality. One friend stopped by just after lunch, a dear, very funny man who is a major conservator of historical sites and an expert at dating and restoring early Colonial-era houses. Then two other guys came for tea, great men who have been part of our circle for years and have just begun exploring a relationship.
I thought it a good occasion to make a little celebration of Fritz's return home, so I laid on a full English Tea--cucumber sandwiches on crustless bread with butter and a hint of crumbled blue cheese, a "little cakes" platter with plump, ripe strawberries, and almond vanilla tea. I broke out the ceramic cow creamer and some of Fritz's ancestral china. At moments like this he always looks at me and says "and to think there was a time when you thought you weren't gay."
Quiet day for us and one where Fritz is showing more and more vitality. One friend stopped by just after lunch, a dear, very funny man who is a major conservator of historical sites and an expert at dating and restoring early Colonial-era houses. Then two other guys came for tea, great men who have been part of our circle for years and have just begun exploring a relationship.
I thought it a good occasion to make a little celebration of Fritz's return home, so I laid on a full English Tea--cucumber sandwiches on crustless bread with butter and a hint of crumbled blue cheese, a "little cakes" platter with plump, ripe strawberries, and almond vanilla tea. I broke out the ceramic cow creamer and some of Fritz's ancestral china. At moments like this he always looks at me and says "and to think there was a time when you thought you weren't gay."
