Heterosexuality is thrust into gay people's faces dozens of times each and every day. You don't see us taking our ball and going home. What a hypocritical loser.

Shouldn't these women be back at home, taking care of their children and preparing their house for their husbands' return from the workplace?

Why are they on my TV, just gabbing away, right there in my face?

So Michael Sam, after decades or working his ass off, wants to celebrate the moment of his success with the person he loves. Just like 99% of every other feeling human who has achieved would want to do. And THIS act is "throwing it" in her face?

What is "it," exactly? Joy? Happiness? Love?

These troglodytes are so totally divorced from the human experience they can't even see love and joy. Christ. That is some sad shit right there.

Excessive PDAs by those of any orientation can get annoying to be sure, but having seen this clip, this was not particularly excessive, especially considering the emotion of the moment.

Well, I can understand her feeling... as soon as I saw her I thought to myself "I don't want that in my face."

@4 I was expecting something more given all the hubbub. Reminiscent of the ads with same sex or mixed race families that have the same people in a tizzy.

The cameras are there in the most invasive way possible, broadcasting the raw emotion of the moment. If you don't want the raw emotion don't watch the non-stop coverageof the draft.

The woman on the right seems like a person who can carry on a conversation at an adult level. The others, I really don't want them in my face. I also find air quotes deeply offensive. Sourpuss old lady is all for people expressing themselves without threat of anyone disagreeing, unless they say something she doesn't like. Her own criticism should never be criticized. Why are these people on TV?

Anything that annoys bigots and Russia can't be bad.

Is there some sniggering Texas good-ol'-boy misogyny in calling a show hosted by four women "The Broadcast"? A patronizing excerpt from D Magazine's backing out of their original partnership suggests there is:

Working with you ladies for the past six months on D: The Broadcast has been a wonderful experience. We’ll never forget our first date at Mercy, in Addison, for that series of on-camera interviews. Your hair was so perfect. The conversation sparkled...

Please, we want you to know something very important. It’s not you; it us. You are wonderful, talented, beautiful people. You will find the right boyfriend one day and have a happy multimedia collaboration. And we hope to remain friends. If you need someone to talk to on the phone while you’re watching sad movies in bed on a rainy Saturday, we’ll still be there for you. We’ll still retweet you, too. But we think, for the sake of our personal and professional growth, that we need to see other people...

http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2013/08…

Here's a big sports website talking about the disgusting PDA of recently drafted NFL rookies. Great stuff.
http://www.outsports.com/2014/5/11/57061…

@10 I was just going to post that.

Michelangelo Signorile is calling on LGBT people to post pictures of themselves kissing same-sex partners as their profile pictures on Facebook. His argument is that same-sex kissing will not become normalized until people get used to seeing it, and they won't get used to seeing it, well, until they see it.

I just posted a picture of my husband and me kissing at our wedding in 2008. Of course, most of my facebook friends have seen this picture befoe (hell, most of them were at the wedding), but it certainly can't hurt.

@13: Congratulations.

You know what I'M sick of in football? When, during stoppages in play, the camera zooms in on a cheerleader and her pom-poms (you know the pom-poms of which I speak) instead of, say, showing us what some of the coaches or players are doing. I mean, I'm a heterosexual male, but when the game is on, I want to see football, not titties.

@12 You may find this startling: Your computer and your TV have off buttons. It's true!

I'm still trying to digest the phrase 'racist against homosexuals'. Can't even type it without laughing.

@17, there's a word for that. :-)

Grow up would be my response. If you can't stand the sight of someone, you obviously have a problem - it's not something they did, it's who they are.

16, But then how will he make decisions or form opinions? All by himself? That's just crazy talk, that is.

TBH, I'm not a fan of cake-smeared kisses. What a waste of a presumably good cake!

However, I'm surprised nobody else has commented on her I don't want (my) kids watching that comment. But I suppose if the story were about denying equal rights (or the nightly news showing violence), that would be perfectly okay for her. [Yes, I know I'm reading a lot into her reaction, but she was sooooo uptight.]

If she really is as uncomfortable with ALL forms of PDA (and not simply seeing two MEN kissing) as she claims, then I'd advise her to only watch 50s-60s American TV sitcoms which showed presumably married (and even really married) couples climbing into separate twin beds to go to sleep. That'll be such a learning experience for her kids. /sarcasm.

I think the best reaction is to be quaintly amused by her out-of-proportion outrage, for what was just a bit of kissing.

Kudos @2.

Gonna try to make a finite distinction here and really don't mean to ruffle anybody. Sort of in the same way Savage is squicked out by vaginas I'm the same watching men make out. It's about the same feeling as watching one's parents kiss, particularly if they're getting into a little. It's ewww with a little e. You don't begrudge or hate your parents because they love each other and you love them and in an intellectual sense you know it's good and positive that they're sexual with one another and yes it makes you happy that they're happy and you'd fist fight any asshole who tried to make them feel wrong for kissing but I'll be over here counting me shoelaces until you guys wrap it up. Little e. Like if you don't like brussels sprouts -little e.

So maybe I'm not evolved or enlightened as much as some people, or maybe that's just how I'm wired. I do know I love my gay relatives and friends and was delighted for them when they came out and got happy.

There are though, I suspect, a lot of small minded dicks out there who experience that little e ewww and because of their fuckheaded ideology indulgently interpret it as big E Ewww, the one we get from from truly horrid things, child rape, animal torture, war wounds. They have a feeling that rightly belongs in the alright I'd rather not see my sister make out with the neighbor kid category and because of their fucked up "values" report it (to others and worse themselves) as evidence of abomination and outrage. It a lie they might not even know they're telling.

To me the kiss in question was sweet and heartwarming. The cake smearing and follow-up frosting kisses were a little embarrassing - about the same visceral reaction as if my mom and dad had done the same thing. Can't say I'd have preferred for the scene to continue but anyone who makes it anything more than "broccoli's just not for me" needs to get in touch with reality.

Thanks Clara T. My threshold might be a little higher with the menfolk,
<<<<< (esp. cute straight guys),
but my squicky feelings get stronger when the kissing gets too sexy, too. I think you explained that well.
I'm not even sure that's homophobia. More like embarrassment.

"I don't want my kids seeing that," while making a disgusted face, is something different.

I wish gay people would shove their homosexuality down MY throat. There's no reason idiot conservatives should get to hog all the fun!

I'm sick of having football players' endzone religious genuflection "shoved in my face." So disgusting! Why can't the keep their mythological delusions to themselves?!? No "god" had jack-fucking-shit role in your catching that ball.

As a single person, I don't mind if people have relationships, I just don't want it in my face with being invited to weddings, a "holiday" dedicated to relationships, omnipresent couples on TV and other media, couples at restaurants...

Or I could just be happy for them and do my own thing. Yeah, that sounds easier.