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Installing the nets imposes a slight inconvenience on the team. Before practice begins each weeknight at 7:30 p.m., the players hook up the nets themselves. When practice ends—sometimes as late as 11 p.m.—the team removes the nets in order to clear the gym for the basketball teams, which practice in the afternoons...
When I came out of the closet, I painted the door pink and nailed it shut. Yes, I’m a dramatic, finger-snapping flamer with limp wrists, a slight lisp and tight jeans. A little too much sugar in the pants. Captain of the pink team. Maybe that’s why I’m spending Valentine’s Day alone with a box of chocolates from myself...
Homosexuals are attracted to members of the same sex; hence, a man is attracted to a man. For the flamboyant, effeminate homosexual, this presents a slight problem. With masculinity and virility as the ideal, the queen is often left without any courtiers—sometimes without any allies—in what can seem a lonely gay world. Walking into a room, I’m used to meeting the scornful eyes of other gay men who condemn me for perpetuating stereotypes. Last year, my gay best friend convinced me that I was always “acting...
...keep out my friends. As I spent more time alone, free from the social entanglements supposedly responsible for my flamboyance, I realized I wasn’t all that different from before. In the vacuum of isolation, I was still a dramatic finger-snapping flamer with limp wrists, a slight lisp and tight jeans. Werden was du bist, suggested Goethe—Become what you are. While my harassment in high school may have exaggerated my latent traits, it certainly didn’t create me. Instead, it showed me who I really...
...need to leave some mark on the world that proves, in even the smallest way, that we were once here, is hardly unique to the modern world. One can say with only slight exaggeration that it has been the central preoccupation of humankind. On some fundamental level we all want to do something to recreate our own existence in terms more permanent than life. Some carve their names into the stall walls of bathrooms or into the rafters of buildings. “Brooks was here?...