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Moman Flaifil 05/01/2012 8:15:00 PM
Being gay is because you are devil possesed. It is the evil out there that is doing this. All gay men started with démons coming at night and convincing them to pull down there underwear. Then the démon would penetrate his anus, giving him satisfaction. The devil convinces people that he does not exist, So gay men think they are like this because of other reasons such as ' I was born like this' or 'my cock does not get hard when near females, So I must be gay'
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04/12/2012 11:30:00 AM
Girls like you annoy me. Gay people are humans, not accessories.
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Immortal_hate666 03/23/2012 5:49:00 AM
Gays are freaks...just their looks scares the hell outta me...they take beauty of fashion and turn it into some scary he-she freak show!! Plus they all die with aids lol
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Ken 02/23/2012 7:21:00 AM
Spot on and humorous. But Stonewall is a staple and many gay youth hear of its story in passing or research.
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01/27/2012 5:15:00 AM
These stereotypes were old 15 years ago. If this is the gay bubble you live in, Mr. Musto, that just makes me glad I don't live in New York. Pittsburgh might not have the biggest or most awesome gay scene in the country, but at least I don't feel forced to take up a bunch of superficial bullshit to fit in.
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Bud1525 01/25/2012 2:21:00 AM
Though some of this was a little dramatic. I am a gay woman and laughed hystericaloften the everyday nuances, frustrations, and spot on interpretations of everyday life for a gay man. Well written and hilarious.
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Lalo jame 01/03/2012 4:27:00 AM
Hi I'm not gay I'm straight and I'm glad. Btw I'm a girl. Though I do kind of want a gay best friend that's going to go shopping with me and get a manicure.
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Runcible68 01/01/2012 9:39:00 PM
LOL. Judging from these comments, it’s nice to see that gay people are indeed part of the “human condition” - just as petty, vain, stupid, vindictive, defensive, cruel, youth centric, materialistic, self loathing and grandiose as the rest of us. Reading these comments reminded me of how Republicans fight amongst themselves! Hysterical.
Musto writes an entertaining little ditty about “gay life” that, while certainly not applicable to everyone, is funny. But, just like the legions of shrill seekers out there looking to tear down everything that doesn’t compute with their limited worldview, some people in the gay community have no sense of humor. None. Some of them, in fact, are as rigid in their standards of "orthodoxy"” as the Taliban.
You go Musto! Poke holes in everyone’s sense of what things should be!
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Colin 12/25/2011 10:43:00 AM
Fuck you bitch!!!!!! I am as gay as you can grt and none of these references apply to me. Fuck you you low life cunt. You made number one on my list of people that make me hate being gay. Cunt
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Choldgrafer 12/08/2011 3:32:00 AM
I'm gay and I don't understand half of the references on here or know who half the people referenced are. Everybody reading this should know that most gay men are normal everyday guys, but you only notice the fem f*gs like mentioned in the article, not the normal guys.
The gay stereotype doesn't exist, it may represent a very small portion of gay men but the overwhelming majority of gay men can't be distinguished from straight men, it's a shame that this stereotype represents the entire gay community. It's a main reason why most gay men wanted to pull the trigger growing up, pathetic.
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11/08/2011 7:12:00 PM
"we"?
guess the dominant "queen" culture (we're still loathing ourselves, right, Vance?) disagrees with you
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11/08/2011 2:22:00 PM
Michael you made number 17 on my list.
(pssst....we stopped doing the whole queen routine last decade, get a clue.)
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Pflag101 10/29/2011 5:32:00 AM
What the f$$k is wrong with u
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09/13/2011 12:22:00 AM
I hate being gay because I already felt suicidal for being gay before reading this article.
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Radicaljacket1953 07/20/2011 10:41:00 PM
I hate being gay because i hate being mainstream and normal. Our lives have become very REPRESSED because of gay rights. The loss of our lifestyle, way of life, sexuality, identity and the list goes on. Bring back the gay community world wide, as we are all suffering now.
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Housty32000 07/19/2011 5:04:00 PM
Hi "crazedgamer24" where your heart is in the right place your head certainly is in the sand. Musto is an incredibly well-known, acerbic, out, gay writer. If you used the wonders of technology for more than burying your head in a videogame you'd know this. You have the world at your fingertips like the rest of your generation and your as ignorant as a hillbilly. Yes, dear. It is a joke.
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Ginparti 07/13/2011 11:06:00 AM
"I hate having been a little sissy boy and having other kids in day care, learning I was being molested, teaching me the word "fag" when I was 5."
They did it to me, too, and I'm straight and a woman. To add insult to injury, they even nominated me as class clown, not pretty enough to date, but smart enough to have a snappy comeback and too weird to relate to. It's not because you're gay; they're jerks.
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Lrvp99 07/12/2011 8:27:00 PM
You should change the title to "Why I Hate Being Michael Musto! 62 Reasons!"
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Still Closeted 07/12/2011 6:56:00 AM
Hello, Michael. I live in Texas. I have many reasons why I've hated my life as a bisexual, but my list doesn't look like yours. Here's a few of my reasons:
- I hate having been a little sissy boy and having other kids in day care, learning I was being molested, teaching me the word "fag" when I was 5;
- I hate having been an effeminate older boy, because it meant the other kids played "smear the queer" throughout junior high school, whenever the coach in gym class turned his back and walked away;
- I hate having been a closeted teenager, with kids at church camp "worried for my soul" and cornering me about it, having to lie and say I was "normal," and hating the very sound of my voice because it might give me away;
- I hate still being an closeted bisexual as an adult, because I can't be out to my extremely conservative parents, especially not my mom, who has angrily said that homosexuals are evil and going to hell. I secretly stopped believing in God a long time ago, but I can't risk losing my family.
- Even if I were out, I think I'd still hate being bisexual in particular, because neither gay nor straight people believe I'm not just one or the other, or that I'm not a slut for being in the middle.
But honestly, I wouldn't hate being queer, if I didn't feel like the world despised me. I wouldn't have hated being effeminate if my movements, even my voice weren't mocked from childhood until I learned to hide my natural mannerisms as best as I could.
Please, the next time you get a chance to take chance in a Pride Parade, be in it. Enjoy the flamboyant, the militant, and the controversial if you like, but also remember that just by going there and being openly gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgendered, you're enjoying a freedom many of us still don't share in this country. And recognize that, even as bad as closeted people like me think we have it in this country, it's still paradise compared to some other countries, where people face prison, torture, or even death simply for being identifiably queer.
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07/05/2011 2:27:00 PM
This article is incredibly offensive and stereotypical. There is no reason to hate being gay! I hope this is a joke, but if it is it's not funny.
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07/05/2011 9:54:00 AM
fag
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Border_line82 07/01/2011 11:34:00 PM
We must confess that a great deal of gay people appear to sadly be as it's been described in the above article. The majority of them believes that outing means to become finally free but they're pretty wrong. They're struggling to avoid having labels attached or falling into a specific category or stereotype, yet, would u believe, they end up being homologated. Gay community just establishes the rules for another sort of dimension, a ghetto in which one should satisfy and meet the requirements previously set up in order to be part of it. Being yourself and being aware of who you are independently from any cliché..that's what counts indeed.
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dobbs12 06/27/2011 3:43:00 AM
Talk about being declasse. Isn't Michael Musto?
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Kewpiemayo 06/26/2011 11:59:00 PM
I marched in my first pride parade here in Seattle today with my little group of transgendered misfit toys. We cover a pretty broad spectrum of style, politics, income, preference and relationship status. Being in the parade is part of coming out for me but we all go for our own reasons just like we don't go for our own reasons. I want to give the love to someone who got hurt when coming out to the community didn't meet his expectations but cynicism is no alternative. It doesn't matter to me that "community" is not perfect and may not even be real, i still want to thank it for letting me walk today. It really does change things.
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06/26/2011 9:51:00 PM
"Gay guys seem to think it's always going to be better 'if only I move to (fill in the blank)'."
You're contradicting yourself somewhat. I'll agree with you that NYC is extremely status-oriented. But not every place is like that. If a gay guy in NY really wants to find a boyfriend, he can move to [fill in the blank] and he *might* have better luck. I did (and I'm not even a high school dropout!, ha ha). I can't tell from your post if you're still pining away in NY, or elsewhere, or are opining about the outside world without knowing much about it.
And it is really "a waste of a life" if you can't find a boyfriend? There's your "unrealistic expectation." So what, live your life. Forget about the imaginary "gay community" and deal with individuals once in awhile.
It's also disturbing that you apparently agree wholeheartedly and un-ironically with a piece of satire (!!!), but I'm sure you're not the only one, so maybe there's someone "out there" for you after all. :-)
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Zing 06/26/2011 1:53:00 PM
Hilarious and truthful article. Thank you!!!
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06/26/2011 12:21:00 PM
The only thing I don't like about being Gay is missing almost all of my friends, the ones who died from AIDS. They've all been gone for so long but I can still remember their young smiling faces and the sounds of their happy laughing. I hate that I have to miss them. Why didn't we get to grow old together?
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Applejelly87 06/26/2011 7:41:00 AM
Please stop resuscitating stereotypes from 1975. I don't identify with about 90% of this. Move on! Being gay doesn't define our entire lives anymore...that's something to celebrate.
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Brian 06/26/2011 12:44:00 AM
"We?" Don't lump me in with yourself and other self-loathing gays.
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JL 06/26/2011 12:29:00 AM
Yea, hate to say it, but that's how it is. Gay guys seem to think it's always going to be better 'if only I move to (fill in the blank)'. News flash: being gay is the same whether you live in Fairbanks, Alaska or Key West, Florida. We are an anonymous group of people constantly trying to one-up each other by saying we have doctorate degrees, tons of money, tons of stuff, etc., without even knowing it, we end up coming out to a group that's even more oppressive and exclusionary than the mainstream society we couldn't stand.
I'm happy for the idea of gay marriage - but the sad reality is that the only people who will benefit from this will be the babies born right now who will never know a society without same sex marriage. The majority of gay teens and adults are too emotionally damaged and have such major trust issues amongst each other that I'd bet less than 10% will ever find a relationship that will be headed towards marriage someday. We are taught from day one - and I don't care how progressive a family you come from; eventually you will discover many gay people did not have that kind of family...we are taught that we aren't worthy of trust, respect, inclusion or even acknowledgement. None of us know how to date. All this 'it gets better' shit is terrible to read. Who is it getting better for? We have a society of gay people who couldn't give two flying fucks what happens to other gay people - hey, he never asked if I was negative; why should I tell him? I'll never see him again and I never bothered to ask what his name was. We are such crafty liars that ironically we come out, then we lie to our partners and gay friends about basically everything. What's gone wrong? If so many gay teens drop out of high school and never go back, why are we expecting every gay person to have tons of money, education and high social status? What happened to the dropouts? There is so much image and illusion in the gay (male) community - THAT is why so many of us have said 'never again' to Pride - it's a reminder for a lot of us that coming out was a waste of a life. We came out to be honest and to find others who felt the same way, only to wait 10-15-30 years and discover there isn't anyone out there. The reality is that gay men are 5% of the population; gay women are 5%, and bisexuals...well who knows. With such small choices, and such unrealistic expectations, this is why so few of us are finding anyone, and even fewer find anyone that lasts longer than six months. We are without the skills to know how to socialize with other gay people in an environment that isn't loaded with drugs and alcohol. That's all I wanted to say about that.
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Nadjagravid 06/25/2011 2:00:00 PM
musto, you need to start meditating or something. You're all caught up in your ego. let it go. let your true self flower and you'll feel a lot better about yourself and the world.
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Andersonjthomas 06/25/2011 8:12:00 AM
Being gay in NY sounds horrible
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Stu 06/25/2011 6:04:00 AM
Then don't come near me!! You must be a big bore.
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06/25/2011 5:02:00 AM
Dumb. I don't relate to his brand of gaydom AT ALL.
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06/24/2011 6:33:00 PM
I’m really happy about your article. I was thinking that I’m the only gay guy with that kind of feeling, actually the last week I wrote something for posting on facebook about why I hate being gay sometimes and this is something that happens not just here in the US, Is something worldwide. I think that I have a hate/love relationship with my sexuality despite being open since my early years. I feel that the gay community is just about sex, looking for a cure, getting tested, be negative or positive, going to the gym, and them fucking randomly...I feel also confuse because I know that is more easily being a straigh person than a gay one...
Sorry if you don't understood my english, I just learn how to express myself a few months ago.
Thanks for taking your time for read this.
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Paul Sand85 06/24/2011 6:31:00 PM
I with that would fit on a t-shirt
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Otsum Jetsam 06/24/2011 4:48:00 PM
Just love and contradiction. But quoting Boy George would make me look gay.
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06/24/2011 2:13:00 PM
The only thing I hate about being gay is... wait a sec, there isn't anything I hate about being gay. There are a few gay folks I rather detest, but those are individuals and they have only themselves to blame. See y'all at Pride!
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Neilan Tyree 06/24/2011 1:48:00 AM
I'll NEVER tell you which half dozen or so of these rang WAY too close to home for me (OK: "GYPSY" is one!), but I WILL tell you that YOU remain on a TERRIFIC TEAR this year, Mr. M. Keep it UP! And I can't WAIT for your book to hit!
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West Coast 06/23/2011 11:59:00 PM
Those most bugged out by this playful (and appropriately stinging) article (that seems to bite from John Waters' "101 Things I Love / Hate About Los Angeles") seem to be the homos who believe in this idea of "gay community."
We're not one family. We don't and never will think uniformly. (A real bonus.) Homos will be much better off once this illusion of a fraternity / sorority of faggotry is demolished.
And since it is the season for embarrassing parades, the rainbow flag is a terrible joke.
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Patrick 06/23/2011 11:48:00 PM
I just think it's lazy to just go for the kill and use sarcasm to make a point, that's the only reason I posted that. To be sarcastic and cynical for humor is not original anymore, maybe we can really work hard and change it up so that it will be a positive commentary toward the community. There are way too many bigots out there waiting for us to go away I'm just tired of giving them reason to dislike us even more. Here we are telling kids that it gets better and then we look at this from what a 55 year old gay man and I think to myself. Oh f&*@ then it really doesn't get better when a whole community is summed up in 300 words or less. That kind of sucks, excuse my juvenile reaction.
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Joe 06/23/2011 11:27:00 PM
You should title this, "Why I hate everyone but myself!! 62 Reasons!"
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Sabelscities 06/23/2011 11:18:00 PM
it's always great to hear every side of an idea . . . i hope both of your sides make people think
kudos!
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Sabel Scities 06/23/2011 11:14:00 PM
you are brilliant
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Brian 06/23/2011 10:24:00 PM
it's SATIRE...
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RWiles 06/23/2011 10:04:00 PM
I'm 21 and I know lots about the Stonewall Riots and the history of Gay rights in North America in general.
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06/23/2011 9:10:00 PM
This is very 90's gay...
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Timcampbellxyx 06/23/2011 8:29:00 PM
Too true for comfort
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HKguy 06/23/2011 8:29:00 PM
Yeah, but you double your chances of getting laid!
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HKguy 06/23/2011 8:27:00 PM
Michael has made a career of being "bitter" toward muscle queens & other major segments of the gay world that don't give him devotion. What makes it all go down is that he does it with such wit & flavor (or "flava").
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DGM 06/23/2011 8:18:00 PM
Disgusting commentary by a self-hating latent bigot. Sorry, UNLIKE.
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lightenup 06/23/2011 7:04:00 PM
omg, it is funny. It is a joke! It is not hateful at all. It's like a Jerry Seinfeld thing but for gay people ("Don't you hate it when you go to the bathroom and there's no toilet paper?") Have you ever met, talked to, read, or seen anything by Michael Musto. He's a funny guy, he makes jokes. Lighten up people!
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West 06/23/2011 6:58:00 PM
Well done, MM. And a pretty funny take on the American gay middle class... from the American gay middle class. Most of the pop culture references escaped me.
Based on the comments, gheys 1) aren't getting any smarter or more capable of criticality and 2) have become enamored with "hate" (like Patrick, for example). Just because you falsely equate the ability to get married as "equality," Marys, doesn't mean you have to surrender a sense of humor.
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Patrick 06/23/2011 6:17:00 PM
Hate is such a horrible thing to put out into the world. How about a list of why I love being gay? Mr. Musto I could hold a mirror up to you and say I hate self-loathing gays and point out the irony of your column. The problem here is not that gays can be summed up within the confines of a rant in The Village Voice, the problem is that we can all be followers and be caught in the stereotypes which you have outlined so eloquently here. I agree that many of the things you list drive me nuts, but they don't make me feel hate toward my gayness or the gayness of anyone else. It just makes me think, how can I be more enlightened and smart and not buy into a "lifestyle" just because I happen to love a man or have sex with him or flirt with? I don't go out to places merely because they are gay and my circle of friends really just reflect who I am intellectually rather than what we have in common when it comes to the bedroom. Maybe here is your issue, people try to assimilate always to whatever the "norm" is. Do you assimilate to a gay community who likes to party and do drugs and sleep with a thousand people in a year and feel like somehow you're disenfranchised? Or do you assimilate to a hetero society where you're again being thrown back into another closet like you say and ask that you don't act "really gay"? How about we learn from each other? How about we embrace differences like we say we really want. I probably don't have a lot of gay friends for many of the reasons you have listed here, but it never means I never wanted to be friends with them. I just know that I'm a little less hateful everyday because I'm lucky to actually live this life. Invite love into your life Mr. Musto don't keep putting out hate.
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06/23/2011 4:32:00 PM
agreed. i can understand it if people don't like mr. musto. that's their right, of course. but all this bitterness? while they also have the right to post it, it boggles the mind that they would even bother to. ignoring someone seems to me a better payback than letting someone know they have power over you by being able to annoy you.
expressing dislike with bitterness and bile instead of decency and respect is something i have come to expect from a great many in the gay community. in some ways, it plays right into what mr. musto is talking about. :) the vast majority of it doesn't apply to me at all, but i can see some truth and humor in it. even if it's been stated before, it's updated for the times (basically).
or, uh, were you asking why mr. musto is so bitter? hahahaha! :D
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Lildewuno 06/23/2011 4:23:00 PM
Gee why so bitter?
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FernLaPlante 06/23/2011 4:01:00 PM
#63 no one under 40 knows who Michael Musto is or cares what this self-loather thinks.
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06/23/2011 3:54:00 PM
Think you forgot the one where muscle queens add on profiles: " Looking for only masculine, straight acting friends" ... Yet, every other reactionary statement they make ends with the word, Gurl! Snap, Snap! If you're a hispanic muscle queen, Loca! Snap, Snap!
"The LGBT community pressures you to be a toned-down gay to move things forward, so you've basically come out of the closet to enter into a whole other form of oppression. " I've observed this condition as well. They adopt the label Gay, because it sounds less incendiary than Queer. Oh and yeah, it's also shorter... by two letters mind you!!
Yes, it's a grand ole drag to be gay!
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David 06/23/2011 3:53:00 PM
Can't believe I missed this. It's great!!
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06/23/2011 3:18:00 PM
I absolutely agree with your point on celebrities lauded for coming out to boost their careers. It's an affront to brave, proud, and authentic gays everywhere, it's pathetic, and it needs to stop.
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Cam 06/23/2011 2:46:00 PM
Insulting from a self-loather.
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06/23/2011 1:32:00 PM
Woah, Pride's awesome, regardless... that's not my gay. Reasons I hate being bi: nobody knows what you are... you have to constantly 'come-out' and go back into the closet depending on who you are attracted to at the moment.... no matter how many times you tell people you're bi, they still think you are whatever it is you're attracted to at the moment... no one understands how its possible to be attracted to both sexes without being a whore... slutty girls identify with you even though you wish they'd call it like it is, they're slutty, you're bi, it's diffirent... when you dress like a tomboy, lipstick lesbians think that automatically means you'll give up your seat for them... when you dress girl, unnattarctive butch girls automatically think you're attracted to them... when you don't have sex with your man often enough, everyone thinks your gay (as opposed to disgruntled)... you can't be smart without also being mean... you have no idea what the popular references are the gay-men are referring to without googling it... you love two cultures but don't fit in with either... swingers are overly anxious to get to know you... so are sluts... everyone thinks you're confused when you're perfectly happy with exactly where you're at, so you don't talk about it... you read musto and completely get it (without the popular references) but can't explain it to any of your straight friends... women always think you want them when they find out, and subsequently start to notice when you look at their chests... men fantasize about what a relationship with you might be like, but they're usually wrong...
This was my first year going to Pride (Balt). It was awesome. :D
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Andrewalker 06/23/2011 1:27:00 PM
Love it. Specially the marriage quote!!!
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Shane Tate 06/23/2011 1:09:00 PM
OK LMAO!!!!!! If that is actually David Thorstad..... Gross!!!! your a pedophile and you belong in jail...... You do not in anyway represent the gay community and if you cared one bit about our cause you would stay far away from any media. If its not David Thorstand..... Werq Girl! Love a sarcastic bitch!
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Shane Tate 06/23/2011 12:58:00 PM
You know... Maybe I'm being a little too serious but I really didn't find this funny. Sorry Michael i usually love your work but honestly I found this insulting. Sure, all the above mentioned things occur in gay life but I would hardly consider all those things the norms. I can't speak for everyone, but I'm happy your gay Michael Musto.... I'm sad you don't feel the same.
XOXOXOX
Shane
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Binesi 06/23/2011 12:51:00 PM
Michael,
That was hilarious, and right on in too many ways. Especially the one about the Pride parade. I live in rural Minnesota now on an Indian reservation, but used to be a NYC gay activist. Still, in the early 1990s, I found myself going on bike rides instead of to the Pride parade, and not missing it. Then I took my teen boyfriend to his first gay parade in Minneapolis, thinking I was doing him a favor, but he hated it, as did I. I will probably never go to another one.
Thanks.
David Thorstad
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leekaygraphics 06/23/2011 10:46:00 AM
"Wendie Malick or Jane Leeves"? I'm going to Google them after this comment posts.
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Emory 06/23/2011 6:04:00 AM
Best lines:
The one about HIV status.
The one about bottoming.
And "You check your ex boyfriend's facebook page once a week..."
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Roi 06/23/2011 6:02:00 AM
then you must love it!
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06/23/2011 5:28:00 AM
If this was true, then I've failed gay school! :D Bit of a giggle though. :)
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Dylan 06/23/2011 2:56:00 AM
these are things old, jaded, lonely, queeny sluts hate, not gays.
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Windchimes 06/23/2011 1:48:00 AM
Agreed! The column is a riot and most of it is facetious and/or tongue in cheek but speaks to a lot of truths. Thanks for having the nerve to print this for Gay pride. (And I find it mainly positive, anyway, in your inimitable way.)
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Dercolonel 06/23/2011 1:46:00 AM
Hats off to Musto. You have captured truths while being wickedly funny about it and it's upset the boobs. A classic column.
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Gadare 06/23/2011 1:44:00 AM
MM... so little of this applies to me (maybe the Oscars... but i'm a political junkie so November elections... and even primaries matter more to me. Pri Mary?). The trendoid thing was never appealing to me (even though I worked in Chelsea for 13 yrs). Luckily, I partnered with someone who's even less inclined.
I don't like to cook, clean, shop, dress up or decorate. Watching College Baseball as I write. If I wasn't phallus phascinated I'd be straight. But I do like watching and reading about the rest of us. Especially our personal ads.
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06/23/2011 1:21:00 AM
I'm absolutely sure that I read this for the first time in a card shop in the Castro in 1981.
And given that it's now 2011, shouldn't it be titled "Why I Hate Being Michael Musto?"
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Bill J 06/23/2011 1:02:00 AM
I'm a 42 year old gay whose lived his entire life in New York and Los Angeles.
I've never met a person like this. Gay OR straight. I guess that's the price one pays for hanging out in book stores and coffee houses rather than night clubs and stores that sell sparkly-tight shirts for dudes.
I guess I might find this funny when I'm truly old and irrelevant.
But then again, probably not.
Ahhhh, Musto, I love to hate you!
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06/23/2011 12:18:00 AM
Amen @ Michael S MIller! If this article is semi-serious, who the hell are these gay people that are actually like this? Or if this is tongue-in-cheek, it's not even clever.
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06/22/2011 11:06:00 PM
nerds are hot!
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06/22/2011 10:29:00 PM
Reason 63: You retread a bunch of tired cliches with new pop-culture references and create a straw-man who resembles a real gay person about as much as a Gay Bob doll does.
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06/22/2011 9:56:00 PM
LOL. I just feel the same today. HAHAHA... do i really have pride in a comunity that behaves like little girls? in constant denial of reality????
I am totally with you. We need to change. we need to stop being a superficial uberbody concern comunity.
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ghostoflectricity 06/22/2011 9:38:00 PM
Michael, I'm not sure why you wrote this column. Are you pissed off or were you trying to be funny? The jokes aren't bad, but they're old. And I know it sounds condescending, and like what "decent" non-Klan white folks said to civil rights workers and African-Americans being oppressed in Mississippi, circa 1962, especially since I'm straight, but believe me, if you're pissed, it isn't worth it; the change is going to come (to quote the late but immortal Sam Cooke), if not now, then soon. I know, easy for me to say, I'm straight. But please, your anger only raises your BP and doesn't get the gay marriage bill passed. I don't want my favorite VV columnist stroking out from anger...
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Venmaker1 06/22/2011 9:27:00 PM
I agree!
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06/22/2011 9:19:00 PM
Um, none of these actually apply to me, guys. Maybe the secret to being a happy gay guy is to unapologetically be a nerd?
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Brad 06/22/2011 9:18:00 PM
maybe you should try getting new friends or hanging out at different places.
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FernLaPlante 06/22/2011 9:03:00 PM
No one is actually like this, in fact the closest is not a gay man but a real housewife of [____] county.
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Stu 06/22/2011 8:56:00 PM
Well, feel free to take your own float and make it classy.
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thinkingoutloud 06/22/2011 8:56:00 PM
As funny and incisive as I think this is at parts, I'm a little confused....there's some frustration at a younger generation of gay men (the shallowness! the insularity! this is somehow particular to this decade?), there seems to be some jabs at effeminacy. If he's just saying that gay culture is an insular and limiting monoculture, I can see a lot of that, but actually really liking a lot of typical gay (e.g. effeminate) things like fashion and musicals...I don't get how that's worthy of 'hate'? He comes off a little 'you kids get off my lawn!" cranky. There's a lot to be frustrated at as TV and media try to really package who we are, but simplistic pieces like this I think might only contributing to those limitations.
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Gay 06/22/2011 8:45:00 PM
The pride parade *is* déclassé... half of the floats are advertisements for alcohol, travel, luxury goods and men's hair removal products.
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Brad 06/22/2011 8:27:00 PM
The article is funny, but if this is how you actually live/feel then I feel sorry for you. You are too wrapped up in all the wrong things. You are a man that is a gay stereotype and not a man who happens to be gay.
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06/22/2011 7:27:00 PM
I love everything about this!
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Anne Thrax 06/22/2011 6:55:00 PM
Amen, sister!
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Larry S. 06/22/2011 6:54:00 PM
'Daffyd Thomas'(Little Britain): "Everybody knows I'm the only gay in the village".... ;-D LMAO
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Musto 06/22/2011 6:26:00 PM
Thanks, daddy. Happy pride.
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Danielmstarr 06/22/2011 6:03:00 PM
The only thing I hate about being gay is not relating to you or your rediculous descriptions of what it means to be gay. I can't even begin to understand what kind of lifestyle this is, but it isn't mine. So on second thought, I don't really hate being gay at all.
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Marie A 06/22/2011 5:43:00 PM
Eric!! Show me the flag sometime!!!
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Johnny dynell 06/22/2011 5:32:00 PM
Just when I think that I can't love you anymore than I do already you give me 62 more reasons!!!!
Oh hon... that whip God gave you!
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Gay Movie Fan 06/22/2011 4:40:00 PM
In my day, being versatile meant you took it in the mouth AND up the ass!
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Larry S. 06/22/2011 3:51:00 PM
LOVIN IT - Lash out that SHARP-TRUTH TONGUE, Michael Musto, like a LEATHER WHIP *SNAP*! ;-D
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06/22/2011 3:35:00 PM
You convince yourself that if your French fries are called pommes frites the carbs don't count....you count carbs, and you're not a diabetic...every gay themed indie film has a DVD cover that looks like porn...the acting and plots in porn have gotten better than the ones in gay themed indie films...
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Rip10199 06/22/2011 3:29:00 PM
ill be at the parade !!! i enjoy the whole spectacle of it!!
