by Furry Girl
01.19.12
"Browsing through the most gorgeous ties I'd ever seen I realized what was bothering me. Growing up I was taught that the worst thing you could be if you were a man was a queer, and the worst thing you could be if you were a woman was a whore. Then came my moment of epiphany: It was now my mission to have the time of my life being both. No one but my closest friends would ever know I was doing this - it's not like I'd ever write a book about it. And doing something so stigmatized, detested, and illegal, which already described my life as a gay man, also felt like a way to accord my country the same disregard it accorded me. It wasn't as if being a monogamous gay man in love was seen as any better, so fuck it, I'll be a gigalo. I took two ties to the cashier and handed the clerk a hundred-dollar bill. Good riddance to the hungry years."
-- Richard Berkowitz, in his book, Stayin' Alive: The Invention of Safe Sex.
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