Have you noticed the difference in the coverage of gay marriage in CA? All "girls" and no kisses.

[Hamlette]

When Mass legalized gay marriage all I saw was pictures of gay men getting married and kissing each other.

With CA all I see is pictures of lesbians. And NO kissing at all.

My theory is Americans don't have the "ick" factor with lesbians and "we" don't like to see "them" kiss. (double ick).

If I didn't hate the MSM so much, I'd say it is trying to put a better face on gay marriage.

Any other theories?

[Vanje]

1. Not just gray-haired lesbians, also Mr. Sulu from Star Trek!

Everyone was dressed real nice, and looked to be having a wonderful time. There were lots of flowers. Lots of smiles.

[readmoreoften]

2. There were plenty of pictures of men. You just might be shocked to see equal time for lesbians.

Lesbians are rarely in the news so showing us at 50% makes it seem like we're at 90%. It's called lesbian invisibility. It's not that we're "acceptable" it's that the world doesn't know what to do with us at all.

Also Phyllis and Del were all over the news... and they deserve to be.

[w13rd0]

3. What constantly baffles me...

...is how society (or rather, the homophobic anti-gay among society) bemoan the "death of family" and the "promiscuous gay lifestyle", but given the opportunity to support family, commitment, monogamy...they find other reasons to thrash about. It seems that at the root of it, what they really want is to just stone us to death OT style.

ON EDIT:
Regarding the "ick factor". WTH? Do homophobes not realize that to put it delicately...the back end is just as much an erogenous zone among there hetero population as the male homosexual? Are they perhaps unaware that lesbian sex doesn't just entail putting on dresses and kissing all cute like? The range of possible activities for one + any are pretty damn limitless, regardless sexual orientation. Perhaps the real problem is simply lack of imagination.

[devilgrrl]

4. They're not "HOT" enough for primetime.

:shrug:

[Hekate]

5. The last time, when San Fran Mayor Gavin Newsom was doing gay marriages...

...there were no "freak photos" to be had as far as the eye could see. This wasn't an in-your-face exuberant Gay Pride Mardi Gras Parade. (As a frequent participant in pre-Iraq invasion protest marches, I know the tendency of photographers and tv camera crews to zoom in on the one person who looks like a hippie time-warped out of the 1960s.) No "ick".

As one sympathetic newspaper columnist noted -- these are families, these people are "us". I saw a lot of folks of both genders. There were a lot of children and babies present then, too. Without waiting for the state to catch up, said this writer, folks had fallen in love with one another, settled down, and formed families. What could be more normal and affirmative of "family values" than that?

Despite the passage of the last referendum banning such marriages, I think the visuals had an influence on a lot of California voters. It's happening again. I'm sure there's a lot of happy kissing going on, but the cameras are showing us context -- loving couples, loving families.

And as a supporter of gay marriage rights, I'm glad that the MSM is not waiting for the state to catch up, either.

Hekate

[ColbertWatcher]

6. Interesting. I didn't notice that. n/t