The (Lesbian) Battle In Seattle

Written by Alex Cho | Wednesday, 04 June 2008

{mosimage h=150}Apparently Seattle has been all riled up by an incident last week at a Mariners ball game at Safeco Field. A lesbian couple was kissing (they say a "peck") when a stadium employee told them a fellow attendee was offended and that they needed to stop:

"(The guest services agent said) the mom doesn't want to explain to the kids why two girls are kissing. So I said 'well, I'm not going to stop, so you'll have to kick me out. So he said 'so I suggest you leave then,"' [Sirbrina Guerrero, pictured here] said.

Safeco Field officials refused to comment on the incident. However, officials did send KOMO News a copy of the field's code of conduct which states "displays of affection are not appropriate in a public family setting."

[Photo and text via KOMO]

The industrious lesbians then began to take pictures of all the hetero couples around them who were making out like horny bunnies. The story has been a flashpoint across talk radio, TV, and local blogs for the past week.

God bless Dan Savage, America's only sane gay talking head (and writer of the syndicated column "Savage Love" as well as Editor-in-Chief of the awesomest free city weekly in America, Seattle's The Stranger) for calling attention to the incident on The Stranger's blog and suggesting a kiss-in in protest at Safeco Field.

This drew the damage control attention of Safeco Field's PR flacks. They're apparently talking about the idea of a gay appreciation night, as exists with most other West Coast MLB teams. (Although it doesn't sound like it's going to happen.)

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written by Scott Rose, June 05, 2008

The wicked witch who told the security guard that she didn't want to have to explain to her children why two women were kissing should be sent to therapy and have her children taken away from her. Anybody who can not explain diversity in love to their children is not worthy of being a parent. One of her own children could be gay or lesbian. Ten percent of the population is. If she does not feel able to tell her children that love is a good thing and that same-sex attraction is natural, then she should get sent to a psychologist, but personally I would like to send her to the moon. The dark side of course, so we wouldn't have to see her uglifying the Man in the Moon, who according to all reports likes to suck some dick once in a while. My parents completely accept that I am gay and give me emotional support against this viciously anti-gay society. If my mother could get ahold of this wicked-witch, she would toss a flute of cold Perrier-Jouet champagne in her face and then spit on her. What a disgusting excuse for a human being this wicked witch is. I wish I could rescue her kids right now, and do something good for them, such as reading them the kids' book about two male penguins in love. Love rules. Bigotry stinks. I want to add that for two years, I was the car repair columnist for Girlfriends, a magazine for lesbians. My pic ran with the columns. Traveling around the country, I had women telling me they recognized me, and that my column always made them smile. I am sending out a big warm cyber-kiss to all our lesbian sisters. To that hetero stadium witch, I am flippin' the bird. Shame on her! Double, triple and quadruple shame on her.

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