plumtreeblossom | Those Hellbound Heterosexuals (Reply)

Last night at intermission I was sitting outside on the church steps, not yet in costume (for long-distance readers, Theatre@First is housed in a very liberal, non-evil church). A young male-female couple walked by me, and the male gave me a reproachful sort of smirk/sneer. Then he stopped and pulled his woman in to him and started making out intensely with her. It was a very deliberate show, clearly meant to shock the "Christian" lady on the church steps.

Guess he didn't see the Church's queer pride flag over the front entrance, or the big sandwich board announcing that a play was happening inside. My cigarette was all gone, so I just put it out and went on inside. No doubt he thought I was fleeing to the sanctuary of My Lord and Savior, to beg that these lascivious sinners be cast posthaste into the sputtering cauldrons of Hell, and that triumph was his for successfully offending the Christ-centered sensibilities of a nicotine-sucking church spinster.

As always, on the spot I failed to come up with anything witty to say in reply. But when I told some Firsties inside what had just happened, it was