OK, maybe that story about Joe Biden sashaying through the halls of the White House in the celebratory aftermath of marriage equality with a rainbow flag draped behind him like a cape was a bit too farfetched to be real (though it made for one hell of a photoshop), but there are plenty of actual reasons to still love the Veep.
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Take, for instance, his adorable retelling of the first time he ever saw two men kissing.
A 17-year-old Joe was driving with his father in Wilmington, Delaware when Joe got a lasting lesson in love:
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“As we were stopped at the light, two men on the right — very well-dressed men, obviously, business people working for either Hercules or DuPont turned and embraced one another and kissed each other. And they went their separate ways,” he told a crowd of 1,000 Freedom to Marry supporters during a recent speech.
“I’ll never forget. I turned and looked at my dad, just looked at him. And I’ll never forget what he said. He said, Joey, they love each other. It’s simple. They love each other. It’s simple.
That’s what this has been all about from the beginning.”
We’re guessing Rick Santorum’s father imparted a slightly different message, but you can’t win ’em all, can you?
Biden ended his speech with another memorable, more recent gay kiss between footballer Abby Wambach and her wife after the US victory at the Women’s World Cup:
“With a flag in hand and her arm around her wife, giving her a kiss, that is really something.
It was just as normal as countless other times you’ve seen that happen.”
Stay classy, Joe.
Dakotahgeo
THAT’S MY VP, BLESS HIS HEART!
Thorsten Brandt
Wow!
Kieran
They could have been two mafia dons for all we know.
RomanHans
How will we explain this TO THE CHILDREN?!??!?
Cam
Love it.
Xzamilio
Rick’s dad was probably like, “I better not see you ’round no damn queers!! Now take that tutu off and go practice kissing on your sister!!!”
mcflyer54
People say some nasty stuff about Biden but truth is he’s a terrific person. He is a wonderful father who commuted from DC every single night to tuck his kids in bed after the death of their mother and sister and he’s always been a supporter of equality. Some want him to run for President – I want him to retire and enjoy the rest of his life. Biden has served his country well and deserves some real family time.
Stefano
Love it
Bad Ass Biker
@mcflyer54: Wish I could upvote you for that. You are so right on target.
James Lyman
Biden/Kerry 2016!
Dave Horstmann
Ill vote for that
KEVINVENTION
@Bad Ass Biker: Here ya go. I also agree… ????????????????
KEVINVENTION
@KEVINVENTION: Oops. Didn’t translate. At all… 🙁
BlueDude
Sure do wish I could read comments from the GOP clown bus nutbags in regard to this! Not one of them can hold a candle to VP Biden’s integrity. I can’t wait to see each one’s demise over the coming months.
Linda Hopp-Hill
Okay, I’ve held back as long as I can about commenting on this, some people are going to be really pissed at me, including my son but I’ve got to get this off my mind. A lot of people are accepting all of this change with gay rights and such, and I for one couldn’t be MORE happy. But for some reason some gay people have to throw it in people’s faces, as if to say HA- HA look what I can do, and the law says I can, so what are you going to do about it ? This is very new to some people, please don’t rub their noses in it, take it easy, take it slow. I know you have been waiting along to be free of ridiculous torment, and abuse, but give it some time, savor what you have accomplished, just because you’re free to do what you want, where you want, do you need to put your-selves in the same category with those couples on the corner going hot and heavy, and you yell, GET A ROOM! That’s not what it’s all about. Live, Love and be happy, there is NO class in bad judgement. You want to be accepted, act like it.
Sammy Schlipshit
@Linda Hopp-Hill:
Hold on there, partner.
You do realize that we homos have had the ‘str8 lifestyle’ shoved in our faces since….well, since forever.
You are still trying to make different distinctions between all of us and the hetero world.
I ain’t buyin’ it.
They way you seem to express it we gay folks should not act normal doing normal things which sometimes includes PDA’s.
Sure there are limits to what everyone should or could do in public so don’t expect any of us to act any more or less than the str8 folks.
BlueDude
@Linda Hopp-Hill: Thank you, I’m in total agreement there. However, there IS a percentile, a stereotype, if you will, which we call “attention whores”, who are always going to do things just because they can, in order to stir the pot of homophobia.
Sammy Schlipshit
@BlueDude:
So, you mean ‘attention whores’ such as the Crashdarians?
Some people, both str8 and not, are just more gregarious than others.
Stop trying to make some peoples behavior more ‘stirring’ than anyone else.
Alistair Wiseman
The sheer number and extent of Joe Biden’s fibs, distortions and plagiarisms did not deter Barack Obama from selecting Biden as his vice presidential running mate. The incidents of plagiarism and fabrication were so overwhelming that it forced Joe Biden to quit his 1988 presidential bid. Does a man who repeatedly plagiarized the words of Hubert Humphrey, John and Robert Kennedy and who lifted the whole life story of Neil Kinnock deserve to be trusted when he tells an unsuspecting and gullible audience what he witnessed when he was 17?
Billy Budd
The story is a fabrication, totally fictional. But effective nonetheless.
tonythompson
@Linda Hopp-Hill:
“Linda Hopp-Hill
Okay, I’ve held back as long as I can about commenting on this, some people are going to be really pissed at me, including my son but I’ve got to get this off my mind.”
When you lead off a comment with that kind of crap, yeah, you’re likely to get some passionate responses.
” A lot of people are accepting all of this change with gay rights and such, and I for one couldn’t be MORE happy.”
No, you’re not happy. Otherwise you’d accept it without the caveats.
” But for some reason some gay people have to throw it in people’s faces, as if to say HA- HA look what I can do, and the law says I can, so what are you going to do about it ? ”
So kissing one another in public or holding hands in public is somehow rubbing people’s faces in it? Curious…are you holding LGB people to a different standard than heterosexuals. Or do you demand that heterosexual people not “throw it in people’s faces”. I mean it’s not like LGB people are having sex in public. The most they’re doing to “throw it in your face” is the same stuff heterosexual people do. You’ve got some homophobic biases you need to confront. Until you do, you’re no better than the bigots of the Republican Party.
“This is very new to some people, please don’t rub their noses in it, take it easy, take it slow. ”
No.
Absolutely not. My existence, and my right to exist are not determined by heterosexuals. I exist on my own terms and I deserve to be able to show affection as I choose. It harms no one. The people who need to deal with it are people like you. I don’t need to adapt. YOU do. Again, it’s not like people are doing anything drastic. We’re engaging in the same activities as heterosexual people have done for ages. Your argument from ‘you need permission and acceptance from the heterosexual majority just to exist on your own terms’ is reprehensible and homophobic.
“I know you have been waiting along to be free of ridiculous torment, and abuse, but give it some time, savor what you have accomplished, just because you’re free to do what you want, where you want, do you need to put your-selves in the same category with those couples on the corner going hot and heavy, and you yell, GET A ROOM!”
Get a room? For what? Again, no one is having sex in public. If they were, I’d agree that they need to get a room. We have the right to exist in public and do all the things that heterosexuals have been able to do and we don’t need your approval for it. And I’m frankly appalled that you think we should be shamed for completely innocuous activities. I’m sick to death of people like you trying to shame LGB people bc you aren’t comfortable. We are the ones who have been oppressed by people like you for countless years. All because people like you weren’t comfortable. We don’t need, nor do we want your permission to exist. So either you deal with it, or you can go lock yourself in your house for the rest of your life. Either way is fine by me.
“That’s not what it’s all about. Live, Love and be happy, there is NO class in bad judgement. You want to be accepted, act like it.”
First off, you don’t get to decide what is or isn’t classy for other people. Secondly, you still haven’t identified what is oh so bad that you’re clutching your pearls and demanding that LGB people conform to your standards. Conforming to the wishes of others is one of the things LGB people have been fighting against since the birth of the movement. If you’re not on-board, which you’re clearly not, then get out of the way. This is progress going on and you’re an obstacle.
I feel sorry for your son having such a homophobic parent.
Sammy Schlipshit
@tonythompson:
Amen, brother……and that’s coming from an atheist.
Well said.
That woman needs to chill the hell out.
tonythompson
@Billy Budd: Interesting. I assume you have evidence that it’s a fabrication. Evidence you’ll be presenting in 3…2..1
NoCagada
@Alistair Wiseman: ” Does a man who repeatedly plagiarized …”
Ask Rand Paul. If he won’t answer, ask his lovely wife, Ru.
NoCagada
@Billy Budd: We wish you were
NoCagada
@Linda Hopp-Hill: Obviously, you got that from another planet…URANUS!
I humbly suggest that you SHOVE IT back.
Zenguy
@Dave Horstmann:
I’ll vote for that 2!
jason smeds
What I like about this is that Joe Biden’s dad did not refer to those two kissing guys as gay. They were just “in love”. How sweet.
It’s refreshing to hear of a time when men who show love to each other were not described as gay. It’s too much of an interpretative word, and does not necessarily speak the truth.
For example, those two kissing guys could just as easily have been two buddies. If so, calling them gay is an interpretation, not a fact.
Alistair Wiseman
@NoCagada:
Funny, I don’t remember any of the article mentioning the senator. Focus like a laser beam, the article was about Joe Biden.
o.codone
They “embraced one another and kissed each other”. So, genius Biden, (who lied about having a college degree when he didn’t) … what is it, “one another” or “each other”? Idiot Biden has no idea. It’s “each other” when referring to just two ppl, and “one another” if it’s more than two. Biden is illiterate. As is the “president” who says “par-tick-el-er” as if that’s a real word. Morons. both.
Alistair Wiseman
@tonythompson:
Spoken like a true, self-consumed, solipsistic narcissist.
martinbakman
@Billy Budd: I agree. This is nearly the exact same story Nick Jonas just told at Outfest last week, about Jonas’s own father.
I do not believe Biden’s father had such a reaction back in the 50’s, or whenever that was.
Instead of spreading more fibs, why doesn’t Biden admit he was wrong voting for DOMA. Some truth would be nice.
NoCagada
@Alistair Wiseman: It didn’t, fool. He asked a question. I gave an answer. Unfortunately, you are not capable of looking beyond that light you see through a straw that little boy calls a “laser beam”…Back to LOST IN SPACE, little one.
You kind of sound like, oh, I don’t know…We’ll make it simple…A true, self-consumed, solipsistic narcissist.
Alistair Wiseman
@NoCagada:
“He asked a question. I gave an answer.”
I didn’t ask a question. Give your reply to “He”.
Keep it classy, NoCagada.
Maude
@Linda Hopp-Hill:
BRAVO LINDA!
‘Class’ is not something we are born with, it is something acquired by association with people of ‘class’.
But as witnessed here, some of our brethren’s comments are woefully lacking in not only ‘class’, but often in common sense.
They know who they are…and so do the rest of us.
Maude
@Billy Budd:
I agree x100.
Captain Obvious
@Alistair Wiseman: Exactly but some people can’t wait to worship him anyway for their own agenda of hating our president and crediting Biden instead. My own father literally saw two lesbians in DC in the same scenario and said he wanted to get out of the car and beat them to death before shouting out of the car I have a child here(I was a teen…) have some respect for parents and take that sh** somewhere else!”. Since then he’s evolved and is no longer a homophobe… But it took a good 20 years and a gay son to change his views. We’re supposed to believe 50 or more years ago Joe Biden’s father saw love while looking at two gay men? Yeah right, that’s not something you’d admit back then, at the very least out of fear. My own grandfather was the nicest man I’ve ever known and yet he was a total homophobe because of the era he grew up in and I’m sure he’s slightly younger than Biden’s father.
Politicians will say whatever gets them the most recognition and accolades because they can use it down the line to further their real agendas. I doubt any of them truly care about gay marriage just like no one really wanted to abolish slavery. At some point in time your hands will be tied on unethical issues when enough people realize that they’re doing something wrong… It doesn’t mean they actually support you. Comsidering how many gay men have compared themselves to black people then you really need to learn your enemy and know when you’re looking him or her in the face because it’s usually the person trying way too hard to get you to trust them without putting the time and ACTIONS in. Biden is all talk(lies). There are people who made necessary actions to get us the right to marry so why all this laser focused credit to Biden who literally did nothing but move his lips to tell lies?
Giancarlo85
@NoCagada: Alistair doesn’t have shit to back up his right wing claims of mental lunacy. He’s unhinged like that nasty troll alienturd.
Giancarlo85
@mcflyer54: People are talking shit about him in here right now even though he’s a great person. No matter what Joe Biden does there will always be right wingers like Alistair Wiseass talking shit.
Giancarlo85
@Linda Hopp-Hill: Thanks for posting some right wing garbage. It’s so amusing the right wingers are in this article under full force posting the same unsupported, unsubstantiated garbage. You know who throws their beliefs into peoples faces? Republicans (christian conservatives, libertarians, etc). And heterosexuality is thrown towards our faces all the time… whether that be in the media, on billboards, in movies, etc.
Take it easy and don’t rub it in peoples face you say? Then tell straight couples the same. This is why you all are hypocrites. And what a fucking surprise… you never responded back. Nobody is saying have sex in public, but one can be openly affectionate with their same sex partner without having to worry what a pompous ignoramus, like yourself, thinks.
I’m tired of people saying “keep it behind the closet”. I’m sorry but no. If I want to kiss my boyfriend or hold his hand why is that your business? That’s the problem with you right wingers… you know you lost the marriage equality fight and you lost miserably. So what do you do? Try to demand we stay quiet. How about this bit of advice? Keep your fucking nose out of the business of others.
Giancarlo85
@o.codone: You vote for the party of illiterates because you’re a right wing asshat. You just love to harp on everything, oxycontin. Can’t belive you show your stupid face around here anymore after I owned you. And you don’t even know how to spell or form proper sentences, so what gives you the right to go after Joe Biden anyways?
You want an illiterate? Look in the mirror and take a look at the people you vote for.
Alistair Wiseman
@Giancarlo85:
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams
I stand by my factual comment regarding the plagiaristic history of Joe Biden.
Giancarlo85
@Alistair Wiseman: Facts are foreign to your right wing mind and right wing argument. You suffer from an extreme form of dementia and delusion typical of those on the right. You basically hail a President (Reagan) who suffered from dementia and should have been declared unfit to be President. Even a President struck by polio had more strength and energy than that unfit clown.
Your comment is a pile of right wing hypocritical bullshit.
Davidwdno
The last thing Biden is, is classy. Now he’s a liar. It’s extremely doubtful that his father, probably in the late ’50’s would’ve said anything remotely positive about two men holding hands much less kissing each other. What a piece of work…geez
Carole Rubin
@tonythompson
@Linda Hop-Hill
Tony, right on, dude! I love your outrage!
Linda, you are no friend to gays if you want to shove gay people back in the closet until you and others are “comfortable” with it. I urge you to consider what it is about kissing and hand-holding that you find so dirty that gays “should get a room” because otherwise it might offend your delicate sensibilities. Are you offended watching romantic comedies where straight people kiss? Have you ever seen a romantic comedy where straight people haven’t kissed? Have you never kissed a man in public, ever? Why do you think gay people should be held to a different standard?
I saw my first gay kiss in 1968 in New York City on the corner of 73rd and 3rd, right around the corner of the apartment building where I grew up. I was 8 years old. They were two stunning women and they attracted quite a crowd, but no one said a word. Fast forward to 2001 when I grabbed my future wife and passionately kissed her on the streets of Georgetown. People stared but no one said a word.
Do you really think we should have rented a room to kiss? Do you think we shouldn’t haven’t done that in front of the children? I have children! We kiss in front of them all the time.
Please grow up and realize that the world is much bigger and more diverse place than your narrow worldview would lead you to believe.
Oh, and we are never going back in the closet. Not ever. So, all adjustments will have to be made by you folks, and I suggest you make them fast.
Carole Rubin
@Carole Rubin: That should have been: @Linda Hopp-Hill
Damifino
Back to the subject at hand for moment, Why isn’t Joe running for president?
ps, I think Linda was well intentioned, but it didn’t come across too well in type. Seriously wish I could take back some keystrokes in the past. But it makes more sense to me to take the hand of a supporter and guide them, instead of slapping their hand away.
Carole Rubin
@Damifino: Joe isn’t running for President because he knows he can’t win the nomination over Hillary. I love Joe, but he doesn’t have as much appeal — though there was vast sympathy when his son died.
It’s great to guide and bring people along, but don’t be naive about who is supporter is. A supporter has to have some sense of what equality looks like.
JelloBiafra2016
Joe is hilarious!