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There's some notes in there that I wrote about how wonderful it would be from a woman's perspective

to be married to a gay man. Here's a man who was a fabulous cook. He was the one helping you

decorate the home. Oh yeah. Your favorite game together was named that author or what was it called?

What was it called? Authors. You know, a card game. Authors. He's probably a fantastic listener.

Oh yes. Absolutely. Sensitive. The perfect best friend. Of course. Everything that a good female

best friend would be to another female. Totally. Plus he's your husband. Yeah. And gay men are good

for absolutely everything except to be married to a heterosexual woman. Imagine how good a bishop,

how good a gay man would be as a bishop. There have been gay men who have been bishops.

Well, yeah, our gay men, and you know, I speak mostly of our gay men and sometimes to letting

not bringing in the lesbians the way that they need to be able to participate in this kind of

conversation because my experience has been primarily not only with Gerald, but mostly with

gay men as friends and and the majority of those who have come into my life. But the qualities

that they have are very desirable qualities, not in spite of, but because of the fact that they

have this unusual emotional sexual kind of experience that is built into them. And you see many

cultures acknowledge the richness that these unusual people can bring to them. And I mentioned

in no more goodbyes having read that, you know, some indigenous cultures have a special name for

them, a special plate, an honored place for them as two spirit is that what I forget what I

called them there when I had read. But gay men would have an unusual richness that because in our

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