Is everyone gay, or is it just me?
Almost exactly two years ago I found out that my father is homosexual. Finding that out completely turned my world upside-down — this man that I thought I had known for all 23 years of my life was a different person entirely! I didn’t know how to react, or what to think. I couldn’t bring myself to talk to him for weeks.
By now, I’ve gotten over it, I accept it for what it is. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoy my gay friends, and I have plenty of them, but it is a bit different when it hits so close to home and it’s such a huge secret that has been let out of the bag.
Interestingly, I’ve started to see a strange pattern emerge. I recently got in touch with an old old friend of mine — I knew this kid in grade school. We were in the same kindergarten class together, and he asked me to marry him (you know how kids do that). Twenty years later we’re both in Seattle … and now he’s openly gay. Isn’t that just the story of my life??
Story #2: Yesterday night i went out for a drink with a really nice guy I had met over in Eastlake. He asked me out, so I was like, why not. The funny part is, though, that when I first met him I seriously thought he could be gay. He came in to the Zoo and smiled at me — I thought he was pretty cute, and I complimented him on his kickass motorcycle jacket. I watched him walk off and I was like “he’s kinda cute, but skinny.” Then this other dude came in, asked me if he’d seen another single guy walk in there, and I pointed in his direction. I was like “Oh they’re totally gay for each other.”
Well, turns out they’re not gay. And the first guy really wanted to talk to me, and ended up asking me out. Whoops. I swear ever since I found out my dad has a thing for men my gaydar has been waaay off. Or maybe this dude is in the closet? Who the hell knows these days!
Story #3: I even thought that whats-his-face, bouncer dude that I’m obsessed with, was possibly gay the very first time I met him. He walks upright, he wears fitted shirts, and he complimented me on my shoes the very first time we met. I thought he was cute but didn’t think anything of it since I suspected we might swing in opposite directions, so I asked my friends, “Is so-and-so gay?”
“No, he’s so not.”
Really??
I don’t know what the hell is going on. It’s so funny how life perpetuates itself from generation to generation, or at least the way you view things definitely gets handed down. Blah why does my love life have to be so damn complicated? I forgot how much being single sucks sometimes, because of all these *ahem* fucking technicalities!!
Hey you. You’re slackin’ off.
i think you are secretly gay
NO! It isn’t you. It is a frickin epidemic… but not there’s anything wrong with it. It is just absolutely maddening when you are a single girl and it seems like every dude you meet wants to get with other dudes. OMG! My current boyfriend is about to get the boot because I swear he just doesn’t have the balls to admit he likes balls. I haven’t seen anything like this! Where are all the straight men hiding??? I swear I am so obsessed with this I can’t even stand it when a hottie is on TV because all I can think of is how my BF would rather be making out with him instead of me. Ahhh. Good luck finding a hetero mr. right.
And a note to any G/L/B/T people reading this: No offfense to you, I applaud your courage and support your efforts for equal civil liberties in this country.