Monday, 14th September, Silver Lake: the longterm gay couple
Jeff and Walter live together in the hills of Silver Lake, LA. They met online 10 years ago and have been together ever since. They both freely admit that they were pretty easy before they met, just up for a good time. And yet here they were, the vision of domesticity and love, and they talked about it lasting. What prompted the change?
It’s easy to see immediately that the two of them are very well suited to each other. They laugh lots, gently mock each other, and have a natural domestic ease which makes them very easy and fun to be around. Jeff was about to turn 40, and they were opening the doors to their immaculate house to their mates.
I think what really struck me about this interview is that there is no certificate, no social code, no expectation holding them together – and they are together and remain so despite that. They choose, no ifs or buts, to be together – nothing holds them together in terms of society’s expectations. Surely if people choose to be together, don’t just fall into it in manner of every other heterosexual marriage, they should be allowed to have that union recognised by law? Am now very anti-Proposition 8 indeed.
