A Fair Enough Question

A Story by Jay Wallace

"What did you say, Angie?"

"I said that I'm not going to your wedding."

"You're my sister; you've got to go."

"Oh, no, I don't."

"Oh, yes, you do. Aunt Lila will be angry if you don't. Besides, why don't you want to go all of a sudden...?"

"Because I've changed my mind."

"But why, Angie?"

Oh, why! Because a wedding is so damn...heterosexual, that's why!

"For God's sake, Angie!"

"Well, it is! And I'm sick and tired and fed up with heterosexual things; everywhere I look, heterosexual things! Heterosexual people! Heterosexual books! Heterosexual movies! Heterosexual billboards, even!"

"I wonder when this stupid Lesbian phase of yours will end...? You've been at it now for God knows how long, ever since you were in high school. Don't you think it's time you grew up and..."

"It's not a 'phase,' damn it, Dotty! I am a Lesbian, and I'm sick and tired of living in a heterosexual world."

"But be reasonable, Angie; we do live in a heterosexual world; ours is a heterosexual society. You've got to face it."

"How would you like to live in a homosexual society?"