"The Fag and the Hag" is the colloquial pair that is always there. A woman enjoy spending time with her gay friends without being hit on, and gay men enjoy friendship with a woman which provide them true friendship and being able talk about things that they can't talk to other gay men about. Its about feeling safe.
Although straight women and gay men date men, but their environment is totally different.
A simple example: when a woman go on a date with a man, she can sneak into the bathroom and make a quick phone call for friend's advice; whereas a gay man can't because his date can enter the same bathroom, more embarrassingly if the date walk in when one was complaining about him, and the hygienic standard of men's bathroom is not very desirable.
When it comes to sealing the deal, straight people ends their dating life with marriage, while gay marriage is still struggling to pass parliaments around the globe. Let's not convert this blog into a political debate (yet), but the Fairy Tell Bitches are all for equality. Can a marriage between straight people really seal the deal? 1/3 of marriages unseal themselves after a few years, and cheaters are seriously over-populated with any sexual orientations, can a ring stop someone from cheating?
Most marriages peaked at the wedding day, a showy day that the couple spent a large amount of budget to tell everyone that they are taken, making the marriage all business than an actual expression of love. Lots of people like to shout their love out loud to everyone that matters, gay people can certainly do that: parliaments may stop the paperwork, but there can still be a reception to exchange rings, considering gay marriage is not institutionalised (yet), the grooms can wear whatever they like. If the paperwork are not accepted, gay couple can replace pre-nup into a mutual contract that bound ownership of things the couple likes to share; if some big companies refusing gay men's bridal registry, the couple can hire a manager that their friends can check on about the gifts.
Our world still need improvements when it comes to equality, but like Margaret Cho said, "We need to give out too much information ... and the too much information will become a revolution". If gay couples start hosting events that declars their union, and make it a common practice in the gay culture, imagine what the impact would be to the parliaments in 10 years time.
Of course, gay or straight, let's fine love first, shall we?
