Gay Stereotypes

Last night, I went to a friend-of-a-friend’s 23rd birthday party.  Man, I feel old.  But, I hate to admit in what must be one of my gayest experiences of the year, all us homos had quite a bit of fun dancing and screaming the lyrics to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas” in the middle of the birthday boy’s living room (twice).  OMG, totes hilar (as my friend Mike would say).

While, we’re on the topic of gay stereotypes, go to Wonkette and search for Axis of Fun.  I learned about this pre-drinking with a few friends last night.  Apparently, it was the talk of the DC homos this week.  I didn’t know Wonkette was still required reading.  Plus, I don’t work on the Hill and have all day to sit around reading Wonkette.  Basically, some gay Senate staffer got arrested for arranging to have sex with a 13 year-old boy, who was actually a cop.  Gross.  A couple of catty gays tipped off Wonkette that the perpetrator was a member of an informal gay clique that dubs themselves the Axis-of-Fun.  Apparently, the tipsters membership was rejected.  The Axis of Fun is a sort of Homo Mean Girls cliche made up of self-hating, mediocre Republicans.  Good for a laugh.  And for a reminder of how there is a certain part of gay culture that never graduated from high school.

After the birthday bash, I headed back to my place in a taxi with my friend T and another guy who lived nearby.  T commented as we walked toward our apartments from the cab that he would be going to bed all alone.  I replied that he could come over to my place and cuddle, not really knowing if he would agree.  But, it was cold and raining and I figured a cuddle sounded good.  I was slightly hesistant because he is a friend and we exchanged a semi-awkward goodnight kiss after going to Town last Friday.  Not a gay kiss-on-the-check, but more like a why-don’t-you-come-back-to-my-place kiss on the lips.  But, whatever, it was late, we’d had few beers, so we came back to my place, hopped into bed, cuddled for a bit, made out and slept until 11:00 a.m.  Yet another example of something few would see out of the ordinary in the gay community that straight people might find a bit odd.