After seeing the latest cover shot and pictures from Vanity Fair, I have to say that I am utterly disgusted. It's an article on the gay explosion in Pop Culture. The pictures show various stars of "Queer TV", both reality and scripted, in various provocative and suggestive poses. Isn't it enough that as a gay man I am constantly being judged by my fellow gays? Our Gay Culture is excessively concerned as to whether one is thin enough, cute enough, tall enough, non-Asian enough, rich enough, fashionable enough, endowed enough, (insert vain descriptor) enough. Do I need the heterosexual world jumping onto that bandwagon?

With the latest Vanity Fair cover, every freakin' straight Middle American is going to start picturing all gays and lesbians as thin sex freaks who wear Gucci and use expensive beauty products. Of course, the questions they will be asking those of us who don't fit that mold is whether or not we really are gay. Great, now I have to spend more time justifying my preference for Fruit of the Loom briefs and Lubriderm lotion as my only beauty product.

I, for one, am sick of it all. NO NO NO: we are all not skinny and muscular like the boys on that cover. All lesbians are not lipstick lesbians. Some of us DO shop at Old Navy on purpose. Most of us do not lounge around half-naked or in lingerie. An enormous number of us have love handles AND are balding. People please!!!!! Can I please have a neurotic, chubby, short, and poor queer on TV? Please?!?!?!?! If you can think of one, I will be at the gym working out. Later.  ¶ 12:24 AM