It's funny that I finally noticed this thread, while I'm watching Love Actually on cable.
It came out in 2003 and I was in love with a transguy then.
I spent the weekend with him before Christmas, and we went to this movie together.
Honestly, one thing I loved about dating him, I guess it makes me sound like a jerk, was the privilege it suddenly restored in my life.
I'm blond and smallish and he's tall and dark and we made a very striking couple. Het couples, especially attractive het couples—attractive according to the most conventional of standards—are treated very, very well in restaurants and bars.
We were always shown to a great table, and strangers told us how nice we looked as a couple.
Someday, I want the world to change, and I want butch-femme, butch-butch, femme-femme, old-young, black-white and non-conventionally attractive couples to be shown the best table in the house, and fawned over, and appreciated.
It's already happening, in some places. I've found some of those places. I want to find more of them.
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