A grassroots group is encouraging a “Same-Sex Kiss Day” at Starbucks. The idea: LGBT couples show up at a Starbucks on April 15, 2009 (aka Tax Day), order a coffee or other luxury item, and kiss as a way to raise awareness on the unequal tax status of unmarried same-sex couples.
One question the decidedly elitist organizers forgot to include in their FAQs: What if my town or city has no Starbucks?
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March 12th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Yeah, =I wondered the same thing, Matt. because my town doesn’t have one either…This just cracked me up, though. Some “java” for thought, this morning…
March 12th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
[...] warning that April 15th will be something called Same Sex Kiss Day. To be held at Starbucks from coast-to-coast, I guess because Denny’s would [...]
March 12th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
That is impossible. Everywhere has a Starbucks, if not seven of them.
March 13th, 2009 at 6:30 am
“That is impossible. Everywhere has a Starbucks, if not seven of them.”
Completely elitist.
No… it isn’t impossible. There are plenty of places without a Starbucks. My hometown of Winston-Salem didn’t get one until I was a senior in high school (2004).
March 13th, 2009 at 10:53 am
We have too many around here, in DC. Of course, Eugene told me that St. Petersburg, Russia, where he’s from, just opened their “Second” one in the city. My, what a shock! Soon, they’ll be over-crowded. Of course, they are not very gay-friendly there…so I doubt they’ll have any kind of same-sex kiss day. Muah!
March 13th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Instead of specifying Starbucks they should have just said “Your favorite local coffeeshop, cafe or sandwich shop.”
I mean…I got Starbucks all around me but I never go there, not when there are independent locally-owned places to go to instead.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Local, independently-owned places are always the best. When I was still in high school in Winston, I hung out at a Starbucks a lot. Since moving to Greensboro for college, then Charlotte, I’ve really loved the local places like Tate St. in GSO and Common Market in CLT.