Don't Mask, Don't Conceal

            Don't Mask, Don't Conceal           

    I can't understand
    Why a straight man
    Would view gays resentfully.
    Whenever I
    See a guy with a guy,
    I think, that's more women for me,
    At least statistically.


    Now that the openly homosexual can serve in the military, what happens to the stereotypical cast of soldiers in war movies? You know, there's always the guy from New York, the redneck/hillbilly, the farm boy, maybe a surfer dude, the black guy or the Latino guy and sometimes both--if it's a really progressive film--usually an Italian guy, too, unless he's merged with the guy from New York, but then the New York guy could also be Jewish. Do they introduce the gay guy now? And will this be done at the expense of one of the other characters or in addition to? They could do a little combining and the gay character might also be from New York or a surfer. He could have a boyfriend back home that he wrote letters to but couldn't marry (in most States).

    To discuss this recent political development, I met with Massachusetts representative Barney Frank, the only overtly gay member of Congress (remember, I said overtly), and former head of the British National Party and ostensibly reformed Neo-Nazi Nick Griffin in a dark, smoky coffee house outside of Boston.
    "So what's the significance of this?" I asked the gay guy and the gay basher.
    But neither of them answered. They were too busy gazing (gayzing?) into one another's eyes. I left them alone and took the subway to Cambridge.

    (RHoid rage, suckas!)