Making the games a little gayer ...

I doubt that it's easy, even now, to grow up gay in an overwhelmingly straight world. But back in the day 60 years ago when I was doing that, there were no positive images to look at or public role models to pattern after.

Which is why a few of the images coming out of the winter games have made me happy in what otherwise have been unsettling days of violence and rancor.

That good-luck peck involving freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy and his boyfriend, Matthew Wilkas, for example.

Or how about figure skater Adam Rippon, who brightens an arena just by being in it.

And these brief spots engaging several categories of bias --- part of P&G's Olympic-themed "love over bias"  campaign that challenges viewers to "imagine if the world could see what a mom does."

Hal David and Burt Bacharach came up with "What the world needs now ..." back in 1965. But love, sweet love, remains the answer more than 50 years later.