Some years back I was vacationing with my wife and daughter in Durango Colorado. As we pulled into town there was a lesbian and transgendered pride parade going down the street and we had to wait for it to pass. Apparently we came on the weekend that the Four Corners Lesbian and Transgendered Alliance, or some such, was holding their annual gathering, this time in Durango. My daughter, upon seeing the colorful displays asked about it. She thought girls married boys, but only when they were much older, and, she vowed, she would never marry a boy because they were stupid.
I asked her to look at the field off to the side. I asked her what she saw. She replied she saw green grass. "Nothing more?" I asked. She replied in the negative. I then asked if she looked closer did she see any wild flowers, clover, weeds, cacti, or birds. She agreed that she did. I then explained that people can be like that. At first you may think they are all alike, or should be alike, but when you look closer, though many are alike, some are different, and that difference is as natural as a wild flower or some clover in a field of grass.
She then wanted to know if Momma would ever walk down a street in a parade with a peacock head dress on and her boobs showing. I said, "what about it Baby, would you?" I got a dirty look and my wife changed the subject to root beer floats.
