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Oh, honey. You know I love you, but go watch La Cages aux Folles and shut the hell up. Your remarks about gay marriage are offensive.
Besides, you have got to know better. "Traditional" families could be as toxic as anything ever seen today. I had a mom and a dad and my mom stayed home while my dad went to work every day and then he came home and kicked me in the head while I huddled on the floor, crying and trying to protect my head with my arms. We had plenty of Tupperware; so did my next-door-neighbors. In that family it was the dad who beat the mom. In my husband's family, it was grandpa (one of the traditional two, called 'Grandpa G' to distinguish him from 'Grandpa F') who came home drunk and sometimes locked everyone else out of the house.
It was the flamboyant man with the small weird dog (actually it was a cat) who saved my sanity. He maintained a cool, pleasant oasis to run to where folks acted civilized. Thank God for theater queens.
