"... the photo is actually of a same sex couple." #825
Indeed.
BUT !!
The pics in #823 & #825 make me feel like a glass half-empty kind of guy. Why?
Perhaps I've been living in a fantasy world. I figure many if not most have swilled the gender Kool-aid, - black suit, white dress.
Fantasy though mine apparently is, I'd conjured the notion that at least within LGBTQ there was a micro-minority that shed the labels.
Either of the pics in #823 or #825 might not rain on my delusion. But it's both. It's unanimous, 100%.
Even among carpet-munchers the distinctions of male & female persist.
Perhaps it's mainly ceremonial, and once the wedding is over they can get down to simply being mutually supporting life partners, gender irrelevant. BUT !
However mistakenly, I perceive it as a shadow of gloom. As if there'll never be a Paradise without a serpent.
I'm not a -kill the messenger- type of guy.
But I infer from this that the next trillion years of human history will be pretty much like that since time began. -depressing-
happy pride