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Show Coffee Drinkers Preferred Page 61 of 307 I was wallowing in my regret when I saw just how private it really was. Their knees touched under the table. Their hands hovered close to each other's. Their eyes flirted. And then Eagle Scout kissed Ralph. It was quick and casual and in a place like Starbucks, even in Provo Utah, it was not the kind of thing that would draw much attention. And didn't. But they were taking a terrible risk. Provo, Utah, is as close as our country gets to Taliban-land, outside of our quaint and plentiful polygamous compounds, or perhaps the Ku Klux Klan meetings in the South. I think most people understand that there are gay people in the world but in Utah gaiety is still a gasping offense. Utah has the highest rate of teen suicide in the nation and people who study this kind of stuff guess that it has to do with Utah's intolerance of gays. God bless my two semester's schooling on Telegraph Avenue because there was a time when Narrow Minded Nephi's head was so far up his own tuchas that I too would have gasped at a simple ordinary kiss between dudes. And then I remembered that Steve had told me Ralph was a "Prominent Member." You gotta love my church. We have words for everything. I suppose any church has prominent members. These would be people who donate a lot of time and money or who are |