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AS THEY SAY NOWADAYS, “HAPPY PRIDE”
I’m a Failure at Being Gay
I am not only waaaaaay outside the mainstream in society at large, but even within the gay population, my tastes and interests do not align with those of most people.
These areas highlight the differences between me and most gay men I know:
Pop culture, including TV shows, movies, and music
I rarely go to movies, I don’t own a television, and I have long abandoned the practice of listening to current popular music in any ways that it may be available.
I saw the movie Call Me By Your Name; nothing about the story seemed remotely plausible or resonated with me.
I have never seen the TV shows that I hear many people talk about, like “Will & Grace,” which was hailed as being groundbreaking because it had a gay character.
I once was in a room where an episode of “Sex in the City” was being played; I had seen all I could bear within just a few minutes, at which point I had had enough and I needed to leave the room.
While I understand that many people are happy to see themselves represented in the media, the very little bit that I have seen of any sit-com is that there is nothing there that bears any kind of resemblance to my life or the real life of anybody else.
And just in case you had a doubt in your mind: NO, I am not going to put on a tuxedo to go to somebody’s house in order to watch the Academy Awards on television:
You can be sure that I didn’t see the movie, I don’t know the actors, and I don’t care that some people rate a performance, set design, costume, or cinematography as being better than any other.
For that matter, I have never seen an award show of any type. Nor do I feel compelled to do so.
“Gay Icons”
Cher, Barbra Strident, Screechine Dion, Beyoncé, Whitney Houston… whoever.
I was once dating a guy who told me early on that he was a huge Barbra Streisand fan. I let him know in as kind a way as I could express, that I didn’t care for her voice.
