Holding hands in public was still difficult. He could feel people's states all over himself and shivered shyly. "Hey, it's gonna be okay.", the other one said and pressed his hand softly. "They are staring...I don't know what to do!", he whispered as an answer. He hated attention. He hated standing in the spotlight, he'd rather be a 'normal' man with a normal girlfriend and a normal life. But, well, of course he had to be the one that turned out to be gay and he had to be the one that was definitely anything but normal. His eyes looked at the people with a frightened expression and clinged to his boyfriends hand as if it'd be his anchor in the wild sea.
But then he heard something, a voice, a note, music. And suddenly, the attention wasn't on the gay couple anymore, no, it was on the woman, standing there, singing randomly in-between the crowd. She just started singing on her own – but suddenly another woman, standing right next to him joined. More and more people started singing in the, what turned out to be a choir. The crowd cheered and clapped and he was just happy.