There was a time when two men needed two women to join them on the dance floor if they wanted to dance, even at a gay bar. There was a time, which Mickey witnessed first-hand, when gay men couldn't and wouldn't even touch each other in a gay bar. "We've really come a long way," Mickey said, reflecting on how gay life has progressed. And years ago, if they were kissing in public, they likely would have been arrested or attacked, or something more severe, Mickey said.īut on this night, as Mickey watched others in the area, no one even looked twice at the lovers. He thought that he personally would never be so open, in public, with his affection for another man. He spotted two twentysomething Latino men sitting side by side on a bench, and one had his legs draped over the other man, and they were kissing intimately.Īn array of emotions raced through Mickey's 66-year-old body. It was an early summer evening when Mickey Powers walked from his Lakeview apartment to the lakefront near the totem pole to read, as he often does.
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