Without showing her, I can hear my 53 year old mother say something like, “That’s just wrong”, after seeing this video. And for her, it would be, after all she grew up in the 60s and 70s, when this sort of thing was still a fairly taboo subject.

My initial knee-jerk reaction was of surprise, but not shock. We live in modern day equivalent of the 1960’s, if that makes any sense. Things are a little more free, liberal, maybe even hippie. That doesn’t bother me, and this video is a form of art. Not to my taste, but art none the less.

Most of Europe wouldn’t object to this video, after all they freely include sex in their movies, but hesitate to include violence. You know, because most people will have sex in their lives, but not everyone is going to kill a man. As you know, we have that backwards here in the U.S. We show both sex and violence, yes, but we show more violence than sex.

The main objection to this video, other than the graphic nudity, would be that it is obviously about gay couples. I live in Southern Indiana, a very conservative part of the country, and shit like this would never fly. All of the old and/or “religious” people would be in the streets -rioting. The funny thing is, other than the people my age who think they are “religious” and or “conservative”, have no objection to gays, and nor do I. Most of the people that wouldn’t object to this video, aren’t gay themselves, and nor am I; we’ve just grown up around this sort of thing.

The point I’m trying to make, with the help of this shitty artsy music video, is that gay rights are a generation away. Let the current group of legislators who are set in their ways, die off, then things will change. We had to wait for a racist generation to die off, before equal rights for African Americans were achieved, and we’ll just have to do the same for gay rights.