Do round balls
fit into a rectangular basket?
Aren't the
colors too bright?
And why do you
want all those balls anyway?
Why don't
you just tone it down?
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The Fictions (collected over the years)
- My
business cards aren't professional enough.
- I
need to tone down my personality.
- Why
can't I just get an $80,000-a- year computer programmer job.
- I
think everyone else is Gay.
- I
want everyone else who isn't Gay to become Gay.
- P-FLAG
won't accept my family as members.
- I
need to dress more professionally.
- My
dog should
be bigger.
- No
family member can be proud of me.
- My home
is full of Toaster Ovens..
- Why can't I just tone it down?
- I
am un-Christian.
- I
make normal people nervous just by being alive.
- What
exactly am I doing with this web site.
- "Iconoclastic"
may apply to me.
- I
stereotype people.
- I
am rigid.
- I
am not really bothered by being called "Fag" am I?
- I
probably do know your hair dresser.
- I
probably do know that Gay man you met in Chicago.
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The Reality
(LIVED
dailey)
- The
US Government will investigate me.
- No
member of my family will admit to any other that I am Gay.
- I
am too tolerant of masculine, assertive, professional women (AKA,
pre-Lesbian).
- I
am too much for the homosexual conversion movement.
- I
attract closeted, pre-Gay (PG) men since I am so obvious.
- I
will make fun of people who must wear brown paper bags over their
heads to avoid being seen in a Gay setting.
- Watching
Queer as Folk will make me mad about the subtle homophobia
we have in our own families.
- Guys
will pick up on me on the phone.
- No
family member will even try to join P-FLAG or march with me in
a Gay Pride parade.
- I
don't care that my rainbow diversity symbol is backwards or upside
down.
- Watching
Queer as Folk will just make me madder.
- The "F" word
will be uttered behind my back: Flamboyant.
- Homophobia
IS a mental health sympton that needs treatment.
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