Cobb: Gay Friendly

December 11, 2003

Gay Friendly

The fact of the matter is that it annoys me. You see I didn't know about the Village People or Freddy Mercury. Hell, I didn't know about the upside-down triangle, or my best friend Vance until he was dead and buried.

Like America's Funniest Videos, some people get a kick out of watching other people surprised out of their wits. But the person who gets surprised doesn't often find it so funny. Double embarrassment. You didn't see it coming, you look stupid for being angry and shocked.

What am I getting at?

I'm getting at the fact that a fair number of gay bloggers dig Cobb. It's nothing I shouldn't expect but all of a sudden I check three new links in a row and it's like blam right in my face.

Now this is the paragraph where I'm supposed to say "but there's nothing wrong with that". Instead I want to make the slim point about how difficult it is to be in the unexpected position of being responsible for something over which you have no control and being unprepared to handle it. That's not exactly how I feel, which is actually a bit more complicated, but it's not about me. It's about living in America and being prepared and graceful.

Now that I think about it, I know why I'm irked. There are two vectors. The first is that I'm feel like I'm backsliding on my conservatism as of late. I'm finding myself back at work in the company of computer programmers. They tend to be an awfully liberal group, at least the better ones, and that's where I come from. I've been extra critical about GW Bush, a man whom I have come to believe is incapable of growing facial hair.

The second vector is that I've found myself sitting a bit too long through scenes and skits on television that inevitably evoke a repulsive "That's so gay" dismissal out of me. Cases in point, some banter on 'Angels in America' that my wife was watching in which two (well dressed, new yorky, young dark haired, witty) guys who are so obviously happy in love argue about having a cat in the house. The other is the gay sitcom in which the protagonist gives Candace Bergen the Heimlich Maneuver. I've been seeing that stupid preview all week long. The third has something to do with the nauseating feeling I got reading this.

So I'm just weary and pissed that my graciousness has been challenged and I don't have any fag buddies I can jokingly curse out about it. Oh but wait, there's you. You know who you are. Stop surprising me you gay jaggoff, you make me look stupid.

OK I feel much better. Thank you for your ear. Now tell your pals to link up to Cobb, where we're up front about things.

Posted by mbowen at December 11, 2003 06:50 AM

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Comments

I think the main thing is that we need to stop associating that queen-ish Manhattan "GQ" type foppery with "gay". For a good bit of the last year my office was South of Market near Folsom Street in San Francisco. The phrase "that is so gay" immediately evokes images that most others would peg on Hell's Angels riders. It's all about diversity.

On the "less conservative", even if you're going to buy into being conservative, don't confuse Republicans with conservatives. Right now they're demonstrably the party of pork and spending, and the only thing "conservative" about Dubya is... No, wait, I can't come up with anything.

Posted by: Dan Lyke at December 11, 2003 12:17 PM

Can't say that I knew about the Village People either, at least not when they were hot. I just thought they were some odd campy band that took advantage of whatever it was that leaked from the counter-cultural 60s into the 70s. It took me awhile to figure out that the YMCA and the Navy were not casual choices of subject matter.

So just why do you figure gay bloggers would be linking to you? It's not as though there's anything particularly hetero about your brand of straight talking.

I share your nausea over the plight of that seven-year old. He's caught in a dispute he can't understand and the adults who have the dispute figure they know what's best for him. This is set up to be a no-win situation. There's probably an elegant solution to this dilemma in manga-land, but manga-land isn't real, not even in Japan.

Posted by: Bill Benzon at December 11, 2003 02:02 PM

Wish I could help you out here, but I'm straight.

Posted by: homerjay at December 13, 2003 06:07 PM

LOL homerjay... Actually, gay, straight, bi, whatever...I find a lot of interesting reads on many blogs. I would imagine, Cobb, that they find yours to be as well. I know I do.

Posted by: Deb at December 14, 2003 04:51 PM