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 | Room for Squares How much of being gay in the workplace is your business, and how much of it is your employer’s? The answer to that is a highly a personal decision. But whether by our hands or not, those of us who work in the corporate world will sooner or later become office chatter. In this day and age, most of us are protected from unlawful discrimination by Fair Employment laws. However, even those laws can’t save us from the often guillotine like machinations of office politics.More |  | Room for Squares A curve ball is something you don’t see coming. You could be happily walking along when out of nowhere a fast one comes and hits you upside the head. It makes you see things from another perspective. The paragraphs that follow are just my way of trying to make sense of something that, up until recently, had always been out of the question.More |  | Room for Squares Recently, I asked myself: “What better place could there be to take advantage of this nice weather we’re having than Dolores Park?” So I packed my picnic basket and blanket and headed on out for what I thought would’ve been a pleasant spring afternoon in the park. I didn’t expect to end up feeling like I needed to take a post coital shower.More |  | Room for Squares The funny thing about every story is that there’s always a beginning, middle and an end. For the past two weeks in this column, I’ve been trying to tell the story of the gay dating game, albeit from a somewhat jaded and detached vantage point. The way I see it, we spend our lives on some everlasting quest to find and rope Prince Charming. Therein lay the storybook beginning and middle, but what about the endMore |  | Room for Squares One of the major misconceptions people have about dating is that meeting someone is the most difficult part. Think about it. Most romantic comedies sort of end right when two people meet and get together, as if that were the only part of the story worth telling. They skip over all the relationship building stuff that happens after the honeymoon phase. But if you’re lucky enough to have made it past that, then you’re at the real meaty bits that make the dating game so much more difficult than a few late night quickies. Yes, you’ve reached level two.More |  | Room for Squares When I realized that I was gay, I also realized that there were many obstacles I’d have to face. Things like homophobia, coming out to friends and family, having to change your hairstyle every 6 months…all that regular run of the mill gay stuff that comes with the territory. I thought I had equipped myself well. I joined a Gay Straight Alliance, had a heart to heart with my sister, and found a relatively cheap hairstylist. One thing I hadn’t counted on, however, was the dating game.More |  | Room for Squares If there were ever a battle of the sexes, there’d be no better place for it than Showtime, home of the queer-centric dramas “The L Word” and “Queer as Folk". In fact, my friend and I have an ongoing argument. Actually, it’s less an argument than it is a continuous discussion about which series is the better one. She chooses to extol the virtues of “The L Word” while I prefer to enjoy the escapades of the crew on “Queer as Folk".More |  | Room for Squares A lot of things in this city we take for granted. The weather for instance; it’s neither too hot nor too cold but relatively mild all year round. Or the bulk of cheap, good food for another. All of these things you don’t really appreciate until one day you find yourself walking around in a sudden downpour, stuck without an umbrella and wedged somewhere between a Dunkin’ Donuts and the East Coast version of Mr. Chan’s.More |  | Room for Squares There was a time in the nineties when gays were everywhere. They were at your best friend’s weddings, they were your college boyfriends-turned-best friends and they were the wives who divorced you for their lesbian lovers. Heck, they were even cutesy purple monsters with triangles on their heads who carried around little purses. I mean, gay was in, big time. And then, seemingly overnight, it became passé.More |  | Room for Squares On the issue of sleeping around, where do we stand (or lie, as the case may be) as a community? Do we think it’s right or do we think it’s wrong? Is sleeping with a lot of men symptomatic of youth? Or, do we, not being allowed to officially commit to one another, simply say to hell with commitment? I pose these questions not because I feel that they will ever be taking up space on any ballot but because their answers tell us something about ourselves that we’d rather not believe.More |
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