Dear Reader:
I was riding home on the Howard-Dan Ryan line last Tuesday at about 10 PM. At the Washington stop, a group of gay men wearing “Rainbow ’93” name tags boarded the train. Most also were wearing pink triangles or other pride buttons, and some were holding hands. Two stops later, about 20 young men from a Christian youth group came on board wearing T-shirts that read: “Music Mission ’93: A Whole New World.” They were all WASP-y, and handsome in a midwest farmboy kind of way. Their group leader was carrying a walkie-talkie, which he kept listening to like he was receiving instructions from God. It didn’t take long for the two groups to notice each other, and things got tense pretty fast.
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“I don’t get much of a chance to ride trains in Dallas. That’s why I’m here,” he said.
Adam Herstein replied:
Sure. What is it? Sign seen in window of a True Value Hardware store on Touhy near California: “Let Us Make Your Blech.”
