This thread is useless without pictures. . .

Gay couples do generate a lot of heat.

I can describe it!

Part of a "wake up" series offered at the free coffee station. It's all close ups of people sleeping in bed. You have a vaguely Hispanic couple with a baby, an older white couple with the woman having cucumbers over her eyes, and two hefty guys with bald heads and beards/goatees. So...go Kimpton hotels, I guess.

Go Kimpton Hotels...

Hey, neat!

I'm always amazed at how big business is often more socially progressive than government.

Very grr!

Yay, go Kimpton Hotels! I stayed at the Hotel Monaco once and thoroughly enjoyed it. Best bed ever.

I WAS STAYING AT THE MONACO!

I am now typing this from a plane. IN THE AIR. Do wonders ever cease?

Go Kimpton Hotels...

Wait, are those gay fish I see? Do they really like Fishsticks? Because that sounds more like cannibalism than homoaquatica (I just made that one up! I like it =)

(Also: the Fishsticks (South Park) wiki page seems out of place. Does that joke really need a whole cultural break-down?)

I liked the gay fish too. But I'm sad that even gay marketing never features butches ):

I'm always amazed at how big business is often more socially progressive than government.

I remember losing a lot of respect for a friend when she objected to a full-size billboard in a gay part of Chicago that had two shirtless guys sort of embracing (advertising gay cruises, natch). She didn't want to see it 16 feet tall, or something like that, but there was nothing to see except inferrable male-to-male affection.

Anyway. Big business, those gay cruises, I've heard.

I'm always amazed at how big business is often more socially progressive than government

Big business can actively say "It is okay for us if we lose your business if you are squicked out by gay people hugging" In a Democratic government, the people squicked out by gay people hugging are also your constituency, so you are sort of screwed. I've been pleased at how much Obama refuses to pander to fearmongers and haters through his personal actions and statements, but less impressed with his speediness on implementing policies that reflect his personal beliefs.

I think a lot of people in the Midwest [judging from my own travels and relationships there] equate their distaste with PDA generally as just being reserved, not homophobic, like they want everyone to not hug and kiss in front of them, not just gay people. That said, this becomes unworkable in practice since the people who share your beliefs about the problematic gay huggers often do not agree with you in other important ways. I mean, I'm anti-marriage in a general sense, but this doesn't mean I'm anti-gay marriage. But it does mean I'm pro-gay marriage specifically but sort of anti-marriage [as a thing that gives you state and federal benefits] generally. It's a weird place to be.

So, you believe in the right of people who are gay to choose not to get married? That doesn't sound so weird.