After rogue County Clerk Kim Davis told the world she “has gay friends,” The Daily Beast sent out a message to those “friends” to raise their hands and get in touch, because the no one believed.
Well, it turns out she does have at least one gay friend. But, these days, he doesn’t seem to recognize the person he thought he knew.
Via The Daily Beast:
Dallas Black of Morehead, Kentucky called The Daily Beast after a fruitless search for the anti-gay marriage clerk said she had gay friends in an interview on Good Morning America.
Black said he’s known Davis his whole life—her first husband is even a distant cousin of his—but said he and Davis became close after she helped him with paperwork at the Rowan County clerk’s office after his mother’s died. While he said Davis wasn’t someone he “would get lunch with,” she would give him advice. Black even had her home phone number.
“Even after this all started, I went in a few days later and we spoke,” he said. “We talked about how each other were feeling, and how we’re gonna be friends even after all this.”
Now he said doesn’t recognize her.
“I really don’t know who Kim is at the moment. I really want to believe that the kind, sweet person who was there when my mom passed away is still there,” he said. “I was friends with Kim in the past, but I don’t know this woman I’ve been seeing.”
Black also mentions that Morehead has traditionally been somewhat gay friendly (as “gay friendly” as you can get in Kentucky) until the whole Kim Davis brouhaha. In part because of the university there, the town boasts a progressive arts scene, Morehead State University and even an LGBT protections ordinance.
But Black says the feeling in the town has changed in the aftermath of Kim Davis’ outlaw behavior. “This is not the home we know. We don’t feel safe now. That’s ultimately what she did. She made us feel like our home was invaded by strangers, and she made us strangers to it.”
