Gay love in the streets?

Question

do you have a problem with two grown men holding hands walking down the street?

reason i ask, i do not, but my seven year old son ask me why these do guys was holding hands,

my answer was they are friends and happy
was not sure what to say

Answer 1

Contrary to a lot of my answers it does not actually bother me.
As long as any person poses no threat to me or my family I am not bothered.

Answer 2

do you have a problem with a man and woman holding hands walking down the street? Most people don't... don't see why it should be any different for 2 men walking down the street holding hands.

Answer 3

What do you say to your 7 year old son when you walk by female prostitutes, heteros groping each other on park benches, strip joints or adult book stores. How do you explain about billboards with semi-naked teens in underwear, or TV and magazine ads using "sex" to sell everything from toothpaste to motorcycles.

As a mother you will have a far more challenging time trying to explain to your child about racism, bigotry and homophobia .

Note: "holding hands" is hardly "gay love in the streets".

Answer 4

I have no problem with people of ANY gender holding hands in public. It's when they start getting more physical that it bothers me. And NO I don't just men gay or lesbian, I don't want to have to explain that sort of stuff (on any level) to my three year old daughter. Bad enough that I had to dodge the question of what oral sex was, to my older daughter when she was three, and I had a morning drive time radio station on in the car.
No more shock jocks for us!

Answer 5

Not at all. No different than a man and a woman holding hands. Or two women, for that matter.

Answer 6

sometimes you really do ask silly questions that have no questions in them tell your child the truth that the two men love each other like his mummy and daddy do if you don't answer his question right he will never under stand what makes the world go round

Answer 7

Not really. If people are ok with heterosexuals holding hands in the street, they should be ok with homosexuals doing it.

Answer 8

not at all. one of my older brother's is gay, he 'came out' when he was 16...although we all knew anyway.
he has a partner and they've been together about 7 years now.

my boys see him as just another uncle. but he has had abuse from twats in the street before!!

Answer 9

No. I see it all the time in the Castro area in SF.

It's a total gay mecca.

Answer 10

In the UK we are having homosexuality forced on us, as normal, through stealth, On TV 'family' soaps such as, Emmerdale, Coronation St. and Eastenders.