On the lighter side.

Wow , was I ever a wind bag yesterday! Sorry about that folks, I will try not to do that anymore. Sometimes I have stuff in my head that just needs to come out, I'll try to keep them shorter. Today I will make it lighter, I want to mention a few things that make me laugh regarding being gay and also when I talk with my closest blog buddy, who is actually travelling this weekend - safe trip buddy.

"Fag-bangle", this cracks me up! It is opposite to fag-hag as where a fag-hag is sort of a boring woman who hangs out with gay guys to make her life interesting, fag-bangle is the gay guy that the popular girls have in their group as an accessory to look cool to society. I think if my friend Elly knew years ago I was gay, I would have totally been the fag-bangle to her and her little group. Only maybe I dress too conservatively for that roll.

"Gay it forward", as in pay it forward, my buddy told me this one, from W&G. When I told him that part of the reason I wanted to blog was to give gay people coming out a place to come so as not to feel alone like other bloggers had done for me, he said when we help other gay people new to the scene, we "gay it forward".

The name "Steven", what is it with every second gay blogger being named Steve, Steven or Stephen, I now know why I am gay, it is because my parents named me Steven, I was doomed from that moment on, why could I have not been named Mike, Troy or George at least the odds would have been in my favour then. If a showdown comes between my parents and I over being gay, I will tell them what every parent does not want to hear from a gay son, that it is their fault!

In the days when I use to try to convince myself that I was not gay, I would grasp at any straws. One of my arguments in my head would go as follows, I can't be gay because, I like to listen to Led Zeppelin, I like to watch rodeos and when I was young I was in love with the bionic woman. Feeling good about my new found heterosexuality the little voice in the back of my mind would always counter with, "yes but you can name every song that ABBA ever wrote, you like to watch figure skating and it was Tarzan that you wanted to swim naked with when you were a boy, not the bionic woman", d'oh! I would try to fight back with the fact that I used to watch westerns but would only be reminded that I know the words to all the songs in The Sound of Music, not to mention Singing in the Rain.

I think it is healthy to laugh at ourselves and is probably one of the signs that a person is getting comfortable with being gay. If anyone has heard of other funny sayings feel free to comment or email them to me, just nothing vulgar or gross please. OK everyone have a good weekend.