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    And did I forget to mention / That I've found a new direction
    The Washington Blade has an editorial from NY Blade editor Steve Weinstein, effusing to Jim McGreevey about the lovely new life he's about to embark on. It's annoying as hell--the editorial, I mean. How annoying McGreevey's life is going to be, I don't know. Things don't look to be smooth in the short-term, though, and he's got the potential to stick around and annoy us for a while yet.

    Weinstein does give the obligatory acknowledgement that not all gays are rich and effete...

    Coming out is never easy. Whether youre a privileged WASP, growing up in luxury in suburban Connecticut, or a poor kid struggling in the projects, the process always involves a lot of self-searching.


    ...but his vision of gay life is thus:

    Now comes the good part. The one thing they never told you about, what you couldnt have envisioned all those years you were striving to be something youre not, is that being gay is fun.

    Yes, its true. You know those guys on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy? Were really like that! We really do drive cool cars. We have great taste in clothes. We decorate our homes with beautiful objects. We eat exquisite food. We know which wine goes with which dish. We know how to dance and do we ever enjoy dancing.

    Developing your Inner Gay will take some time. Be patient. Rome wasnt built in a day and neither will your wardrobe. [Clunk! I guess our prose, unlike our clothing, isn't always so cool or beautiful.--SRK] Anyway, youre already one step ahead: You obviously work out.


    Your one-stop shopping source for gay stereotypes, that Steve Weinstein is. By my reckoning, he's neglected only to tell McGreevey to buy a cat. And despite his invocation of central-casting Connecticut WASP's and people who live in housing projects, he appears to know nothing about the larger American middle. Those of us who grew up there weren't told that gay life isn't fun, in the clotheshorse, disco-hopping, witty-sarcasm-at-dinner-parties way. We were told that that's all it is.

    Look, I have to acknowledge that the profile above is one that fits me pretty squarely. Well, I dress nothing like the guys on Queer Eye. And I'm not the see-and-be-seen resort type. And most of what I eat is my own cooking, about the exquisiteness of which it would be unseemly for me to make pronouncements. But anyway, I like what my working-class relatives call "nice things" and am glad to be able to afford them.

    Given McGreevey's background, what Weinstein describes is the kind of existence he seems likely to opt for, too. But making gay life in its totality sound like some sort of country club--for once, the lefty warnings to acknowledge "diversity" seem to fit--is insulting to guys who are perfectly happy being gay even though they don't dance, don't care about clothes, and wouldn't know a jar of pesto if it fell out of the sky and bonked them on the head. What's fun...well, not always fun, but good and right...about gay life is the ability to enjoy and care for our friends and loves without having to skulk around about it. You don't have to set foot on Fire Island for that.
    Posted by Sean on 2004-08-29 19:30:58
    Kris (mail) (www):
    UNBELIEVABLE that someone would write something like that in seriousness, and get it printed. This is why I loathe the gay press - it's like there's a sign: "Your intellectual development must be below THIS line to write."
    8.30.2004 11:57pm
    Sean Kinsell (mail) (www):
    No fooling. At first, it seemed to be just another lockstep-liberal gay apologia for McGreevey, but by the time I got two-thirds of the way down, I was like, NO, SHE DIDN'T! at the end of every paragraph. This is the kind of joker who probably uses the word A-list with no trace of irony. Actually, what really irked me was that there's an important point about coming out buried in there. It does free you to choose the little day-to-day things--food and clothes and knick-knacks--that you enjoy without that constant uptight hum in your head that warns you not to let yourself go too much, lest you pick something too "gay." I don't know that using McGreevey's case as a context for pointing that out is the greatest idea, though. And in any case, it is in no way, shape, or form what Weinstein was driving (in his cool car) at. Wanker.
    8.31.2004 11:15am
    Sean Kinsell (mail) (www):
    My dear man, you can hardly expect a man of distinction, such as Mr. McGreevey, to make do with some plebeian gift-kitty that's practically a...stray. Only a pure-breed will go with his exquisite new food and apartment full of beautiful objects. In fact, I'd recommend one in black (for day-to-day wear), one in beige (for when mood says "earth tones"), and maybe one in white (for when he's feeling Valley of the Dolls and puts on something youthful and daring).
    9.6.2004 12:33pm
    John "Akatsukami" Braue (mail):
    "By my reckoning, he's neglected only to tell McGreevey to buy a cat." Buy a cat? Unless Weinstein is writing from some alternate dimension where PETA and ALF regularly kill unneutered pets and their owners, I think that McGreevey could easily get one for free. (Yes, the upkeep tends to be quite a bit. But isn't that the case with any nominally-free gift? Recall the derivation of "white elephant".)
    9.6.2004 12:34pm
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