Originally Posted By: greenaccord02
I wouldn't say it's frowned upon down here. I know quite a few same-sex couples that live perfectly openly. However, other than a sticker or something like that it isn't advertised any more than the average straight person would advertise their preference. I think the extreme advertisement was the noteworthy part of the picture far more than the fact that "Wow, it's a homo sexual person*." As backward as people may thing Americans are, we live and work around all kinds of people every day. Even down here in the south where my neighbors look like extras for the movie 'Deliverance,' believe it or not.
The equivalent of this picture would be a person painting nothing but the aforementioned silhouette (for the purpose of this discussion we'll call it the "straight symbol" - to my knowledge there is no official one) in very large fashion all over his car. That's what I meant when I said it was "loud" in my above post and I'm pretty sure what everybody else was getting a kick out of too. No offense, but I wouldn't take it so personally.
That said, however, I understand do where you're coming from and it's understandable that you're on the defensive. I wouldn't take the matter further in the public forum for fear that we might violate all three parts of 'RSP' at one time.
* - had to put a space between homo and sexual because if you don't all you see is [censored]. Hmm.
Sorry if I seemed defensive... Just was opening up the discussion with my point of view is all.
I have driven my Santa Fe with it's rainbow sticker into the states many times into "unsafe" areas and it has never been a problem for the most part... I have also encountered snickering and talking behind my back at gas stations etc. here and in the US. But I don't sweat it even though it bugs me.