So an aquiantance of mine at work just asked how married life was going. I said it was awesome, and that if he could find the right person, he should give it a shot. Then I realized that I didn't know if he was married or divorced or what, so I asked him if he was, or if he'd ever been married. He laughed, and said that no, he was gay, so getting married was impossible.

*blink... blink*

Um, oh. How do you respond to that? Obviously I could care less if he's gay or not, but I've never been in a situation where someone told me they were gay. There was another co-worker there, and we talked about it still being possible to have a ceremony, and I said that the reason I liked being married had nothing to do with the legality of it, and we bantered about that for a little, and then it was back to business as usual.

He was surprised I didn't know. How the hell am I supposed to know? It's not like he's at all flamboyant or a queen or anything. Just a normal guy. There's a lesson to be learned there, somewhere... something about books and covers.

Anyways, it made me sad to hear him talk about what rights he wouldn't get if he had a partner but wasn't married. Like, if they were in the hospital, his visitation rights are limited because he's not family. That would truly suck. Stuff like that.

I've recently said that I wish I had a gay friend. It would be fun to learn more about the gay subculture from the inside (go ahead, make the jokes :) I'm not really friends with this guy, though, so I guess I'll continue to wait.