Favvocitat (I)

I remember one Fourth of July evening in Philadelphia, about a year after my surgery. I was walking home arm in arm with Lisa, my lover at the time, after the fireworks display. We were leaning in to another, walking like lovers walk. Coming towards us was a family of five: mom, dad, and three teenage boys. "Look, it's a couple faggots," said one of the boys. "Nah, it's two girls," said another. "That's enough outa you," bellowed the father, "one of 'em's got to be a man. This is America!"
(Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw. On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us, 1994)