frye@bbncca.ARPA (Roger E. Frye) (06/16/84)
Hi folks,
I wonder whether I can get away with talking about 'nude underwater unisex
backpacking'. Last weekend in the pool at the Randolph Country Club, I was
attacked by Tarzan and beast. What a way to open a conversation. Maybe
you know the line, "Oh that beast just untied my bathing suit! Would you
help me?"
Later, two of my lesbian friends said the identical thing about my jungle
adventures: "I think it's so neat the way gay men can talk to each other."
One of them humorously suggested that the reputed longer term of women's
relationships is just because they take so long to get started. Instead of
going home together or calling the same night, you wait like four days so
you won't seem too aggressive.
What am I getting at? That all gay men are like that or all lesbians are
like that? That all women want it to be different? No, just that it really
is fun to smile at an attractive person and start talking. And that I like it
when sex comes first, and worrying about whether you'd be compatible comes second.
I'm having a gay time exploring this side of my sexuality, and if you see me
tomorrow at the Gay Pride March in Boston, smile and say, "Hi."
As for labels, bi-
Roger Frye