Oph. was here this week. Oph. is Heather's best friend. I like him too, he was my emergency contact during my marathon. Doctor. Jewish. Gay. I'd recommend a a best gay friend for the girlfriend to all the guys out there. I hate driving 25 minutes to that perfect, quaint dessert place to find that perfect piece of cake, I hate shopping, I hate driving aimlessly around looking at houses and rating them, I hate discussing the finer points of interior design. Oph. covers all that, great time saver. Oph. and Heather are Will and Grace, it is uncanny. He was here to take his boards (sp?), some kind of exam for doctors who want to specialize in something. I think.
Oph. and his partner, Michael, recently got married in Toronto. Yes, Toronto, because gay marriage or even civil unions are still a big no no in the United States. I really wonder why, I don't think that overall the US is more anti gay than we are in Belgium. I just think that the very vocal opponents of gay marriage usurped the silent majority in the US, the silent majority of people who do not care enough to be advocates for gay marriage, so they end up being opponents by default. Whereas in Belgium I think the opposite happened, the very vocal minority of pro gay marriage advocates where able to pass gay marriage laws because the silent majority did not care enough about the issue to oppose it. I may be totally misjudging this, but that's my opinion. And therefore I also think it a disgrace that none of the democratic presidential candidates (or at least the front runners) has taken a clear pro gay marriage stance. Why should they? There is no alternative for gay voters anyway. If I were a gay activist, I would not let democratic candidates get away with this anymore, courting their votes by showing up at pride parade, but not doing anything for them once elected.