In Trump's America, 'Queer Eye' reminds me to approach political differences with love
There is a moment in the "Queer Eye" pilot that made me cringe. The subject of the episode, Tom, is a 57-year-old unlucky-in-love self-described "redneck." About halfway through the episode, he is riding in the car with Jonathan and Bobby, two of the "Fab Five," a team of gay men with different areas of expertise tasked with making over people's lives. Tom asks Jonathan and Bobby if either one of them is married.
"I am," Bobby says. "We've been together 13 years and married for five because, of course, it wasn't legal to get married until five years ago."
In response to that, Tom
