A gay couple in Portugal has repeated the “let’s walk around holding hands and see who we enrage by merely existing” experiment that achieved less-than-inspiring results in cities like Moscow, Kiev and Jerusalem.
After their first video in Lisbon, they were the victims of homophobic vandalism and hacking, but they feel the positive impact of queer visibility dwarfs the negativity.
In their latest installment, Lorenzo and Pedro parade their inoffensive affection around the picturesque city of Oporto, including at a soccer match where they were told they might be killed.
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They were not killed.
Actually, nobody had anything to say to them at all. But the looks. The looks!
It’s as if a gay couple holding hands is a juggling monkey riding a unicycle the way people stop in their tracks to take the sight in.
Related: Two Men Walk Down The Streets Of Portugal Holding Hands And The Result — Wuh? — Is Totally Awesome
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Josh447
Fabulous
Amsterdirk
Great job, guys. If they see it often enough, they’ll get used it. Fighting the good fight in a very simple/effective way. 🙂
AtticusBennett
visibility is the most important part of the ongoing movement. PDA is important. it’s the normalizing of what people still “don’t see that often”
its why i wear my rainbow bracelet every day. it’s why i hold my man’s hand in public.
i mean, HELL, there are still people who gawk at interracial couples. visibility. it’s the cure.
Bauhaus
Only a complete and total idiot would think that my man and I are not a couple. We don’t hold hands in public, but the way we interact with each other leaves no doubt we are together. Portugal (Algarve) has always been one of my favorite places.
Masc Pride
Non-violent reactions will probably be the case indefinitely. Gay men are like 2 percent of the population, and the percentage of gay men in actual relationships is probably well below 0.5 percent. Even if every gay man was partnered and comfortable with PDA, the sight still wouldn’t be a common occurrence just by numbers alone. Like seeing a little person, they get looks partly because people just aren’t used to seeing them, but they’ve been around forever. Same thing here. It is rather awkward seeing two adult men holding hands. It’s almost like you expect them to start skipping too.
Captain Obvious
I’d rather hold hands because we wanted to and not just to put on a show for attention.
Brian
Two men holding hands threatens women the most. It represents a rejection of women, something women really hate.
It also represents male power because it suggests in her eyes that men can opt into men for sex if she refuses consent. It takes away her power to use the promise of consent to change other aspects of his behavior.
In any case, it just goes to show that Portugal is not as open-minded as the gay community claims it to be.
Bauhaus
@Brian:
Smeds. Ugh.
BlogShag
@Brian:
Brian-
I don’t think it offends anyone more then heterosexual men. After all, they are the cause of most of the homophobic outrage you see in societies. One of the reasons this is, is because homosexuality seems so anti-macho to them and against everything they’ve been taught growing up. For some reason people that do things out of the ordinary sends chills up many people’s spines. My experience is women could care less. They just are not that reactionary, and see it as, “Hmm, that’s one less rape danger I have to worry about.” The only time they don’t like it is when they are attracted to the man who is clearly not interested because they like their own sex.
-BlogShag
BlogShag
@AtticusBennett: You are absolutely correct. Some don’t agree with this tactic, but it’s the same for interracial couples. Visibility is key.
It’s makes a statement and says, “We are not freaks, and we are not 2nd class citizens. Most of us are law abiding, tax paying citizens, and human beings like everyone else. And if you don’t like it, fuck off. Maybe I don’t like a lot of things other people do, doesn’t mean I have the right to discriminate, judge, hate and torture them.”
McShane
@Brian:
Smeds. Barf.
Clark35
@Captain Obvious: Exactly.
ScottOnEarth
I love these brave men! Now all of those people who stop to look at 2 men holding hands can never say they’ve never seen a gay person before and they see that there’s nothing to fear! Visibility in everyday life is an amazing equalizer. Thanks, guys!
Brian
Blog Shag,
You’re confusing the safe, segregated version of male homosexuality from the dangerous, non-segregated version of male homosexuality. They are worlds apart.
You have to remember that women fear male homosexuality if it exists in men who are also attracted to women. This is the dangerous, non-segregated version of male homosexuality, one that women can’t control, and which represents a threat to her power over men.
Male power is encapsulated by male physical strength as well as male sexuality. The dangerous, non-segregated version of male homosexuality represents the ascendancy of male sexuality as a whole, and thus male power. The safe, segregated version of male homosexuality represents a surrender to women, and is the version women prefer.
Curty
Also good to do it in groups to show more have the courage to confront the ignorance, homophobia. Me and my bf held hands in a movie theater, no one said anything but there were some looks. Let them. But if someone says anything it would be hard for both us not to defend ourselves. Lol
AtticusBennett
ignore “Brian”. on many gay sites he says the same things. why? he has no life, and nobody loves him. see also “masc pride”
LOL
asteamy
these guys used to make amateur porn that was pretty good, does anybody know where they can be found?