He lost a client from me not because he's a homophobe, but because reading those last few sentences gave me a headache. I could NOT get through an entire book (or even short story) written that way.

Yay more "You're intolerant of my intolerance!" wank? Ah, to long for the days when one could ONLY include gays or lesbians in their work if they met horrible ends so that the moral lesson could be passed that being gay gives you a case of TEH DED, or sometimes teh cray-z. If you were lucky.

Also, DC is not in flyover country. Move to Minneapolis/St Paul and THEN you can whine about living in flyover country.

[Is tired of waving at travel magazines with a flag that says 'Hey, we're down here! The country does not just disappear between Las Vegas and Chicago. We have a higher number of theater seats per capita than New York. Why are you pretending you can't see us?']