Role models
Jan. 16th, 2004 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpI am always very flattered and honored when I find out that somewhere, somehow, I am some sort of a queer role model. I mean, I think I'm a good person, so I think if I'm going to somehow represent queerness, that's pretty cool. I've been told several times that I was the first real queer friend someone has had, or that Jennifer and I are someone's first queer couple friends, but the cutest was when 
Curt told Daina that we were the first queer adults he's ever met (or something like that).
Tonight I got a little dose of what that must feel like. We had our big run-through chorus cram session tonight and in one of our songs, our director thought it would be nice if some people went toward the crowd and started dancing. My beloved Patty and her partner Peg volunteered to do it, and then our director goaded two other couples to dance also. It was so damned beautiful seeing those three couples, all older than me and together for long periods of time, slow dancing together. I know I've said before that I get sappy when I'm sick, but my goodness, when I saw the one woman with the all-grey hair gazing into her partner's eyes with adoration, and then her partner whispering something in her ear that made both of them laugh softly... well, I about lost it. Someday, they will be us, and she will brush silver strands off of my forehead and I will place my hand on her lower back, and we will dance, slowly and purposefully, in front of the world.
I'm so glad I live in a time where six women can slow dance together in front of a crowd of people. There is so much progress that still needs to be made, but tonight I can rest happily and dream of older women in love.
Curt told Daina that we were the first queer adults he's ever met (or something like that).Tonight I got a little dose of what that must feel like. We had our big run-through chorus cram session tonight and in one of our songs, our director thought it would be nice if some people went toward the crowd and started dancing. My beloved Patty and her partner Peg volunteered to do it, and then our director goaded two other couples to dance also. It was so damned beautiful seeing those three couples, all older than me and together for long periods of time, slow dancing together. I know I've said before that I get sappy when I'm sick, but my goodness, when I saw the one woman with the all-grey hair gazing into her partner's eyes with adoration, and then her partner whispering something in her ear that made both of them laugh softly... well, I about lost it. Someday, they will be us, and she will brush silver strands off of my forehead and I will place my hand on her lower back, and we will dance, slowly and purposefully, in front of the world.
I'm so glad I live in a time where six women can slow dance together in front of a crowd of people. There is so much progress that still needs to be made, but tonight I can rest happily and dream of older women in love.
