Really?  Really…. My honey and I attended the Bryan Adams concert last night at the Paramount.  It was fabulous!  Bryan was really on his game at this “unplugged” event.  Mostly playing his slower, classic love songs, it was a wonderful celebration of love and relationships.  The love of my life and I spent most of the evening holding hands, wiping tears, and cuddling….in a generally PG-rated way, of course…We are both over 50, for Pete’s sake….and heaven forbid the “kids” find out that old people actually “do it”….LOL

We had noticed during the concert that there was a rather over zealous usher walking up and down the isles, watching every move of folks who may do the unthinkable and take a picture of the star musician or, heaven forbid, text someone on their phone….and scolding them.  We tried to ignore her.  But near the end of the concert, when Bryan was playing the song, “Heaven” we felt a little overcome and began to share a sweet kiss…..Next thing we know this chick is on us like white on rice…..letting us know that we needed to “show more respect for the people behind us”…..REALLY?  Really…uh huh…..Wow….. here at the base of Capital Hill…..no kissing allowed.

Now, in my over 50 years of life I have been to the Paramount many times. I was there in the 70’s to see HEART…of course….and there was a heck of a lot more going on besides nice little hetero couples like us…..kissing. You know…bongs galore, and other things happening that if my mother ever knew I had witnessed would make her roll over in her grave.  So…kissing?  Really? 

I may have an idea why this decidedly “butch” chick found the need to stop us in our “untoward” behavior. A gay couple was recently in the news because they were kicked out of a bar in London for….oh no….kissing.  Could it have been some kind of international retaliation?  I certainly hope not.  WE LIVE on Capital Hill, enjoying harmony with all stripes of our brothers and sisters— gay, bi, lez…hetero.  All happily in love or trying to find love, and respecting each others choices. It’s a freakin’ love fest up here, I tell ya! I thought we, as a society, were somewhat beyond bigotry.  Silly me. All I can say at is that NONE of US, no matter what our gender or life choice, will be dissuaded from happily kissing our darling partners whenever and wherever we like….just as before….(within the bounds of “propriety”, of course). Reverse discriminating Butch-zilla’s beware…..We’re hetero. We’re here, and we’re not going away!  Who woulda thunk….