Matt Siegels love story about identity, sex and finding companionship:
“It was an acquaintance and former editor of one of those gay lifestyle magazines who advised twenty-year-old me to tone it down if I ever wanted to find a boyfriend. This coming from a man obsessed with anything Disney-related; the walls of his West Hollywood condo adorned with carefully framed Snow White and Fantasia animation cels. You dont need to tell them how much you love Belinda Carlisle on your first date, he said. But I do love Belinda Carlisle! That quavering vibrato! I whined. Well, he said, theyll find out eventually, and by that point they will love you, Belinda and all. While I hate(d) him for saying it, I understood the algorithm: gay men are attracted to men, so the more you resemble a man, the more desirable you will be to a gay man. [Insert frowny face emoticon.]”