For a while, it looked like the trade negotiations were going to
be sunk by a major media blowup. Word reached the rest of the
alien delegation and got back to Ailouros. I was present in his
suite when his triple-great grandfather, the sovereign of all
Ailouros and Emperor of the Ailourian Hegemony called. The
hyperspatial waves [...]
Sexy chicks tortured by monstersOf course the snip had to get revenge. With that kind of anger
built up over years of being told by the society that he wasn’t
worth shit because he was gay, his only other choice was to
direct it onto the straights but he didn’t have the guts to do
that. He contacted a straight reporter he knew on the local
paper and the word also got back to a reporter for our local T.V.
station, one who had already managed to get a gay judge thrown
off the bench for a consensual relationship with a male hustler
who was a bit less than two months short of being 18-even though
sixteen is the age of consent in Minnesota.
Kontar and I were having dinner in a restaurant when the snippy
bitch queen showed up with the T.V. reporter, a cameraman and
the newspaper reporter in tow. Kontar knocked the reporter and
the cameraman clear across the restaurant with one blow of his
powerful hand pads. I was glad to see that he controlled himself
that much. If he had used much more force, we would have had two
dead men on our hands. I left the snippy queen writhing on the
floor after I knocked the wind out of him and left the reporter
with a broken jaw. I’d been waiting for the chance to do that
for years.
Our affair was bound to attract notice, of course. The first to
comment was the gay community- and there were people who disap-
proved, even though Kontar and I were not hurting anyone, and
those others took it upon themselves to express their disapprov-
al. These were the same people who always dump on the sexual
minorities within [...]