Lip Service

Gay people fight against discrimination. But lately, I realized that some of us were now reduced to self-hating gay men. Is there a need for me to wear my mask again. Society has handed me a mask to wear ... everywhere I go, at all times and before all sections of society, I pretend. Pretend not to be gay so that I won’t be discriminated not just by straight people, but by gay people as well.

Are we discriminating our own kind? What kind of people are we if we stereotype our own kind?

I am guilty of bashing other gay people and it became a hobby every time I wait for my friends to come. But never did I post their pictures on the internet and comment on the way they look: make-up and fashion. I still respect them for who they are. A couple of days ago, an article was posted at http://www.chikatime.com/ about the soft opening of Club Government. What upsets me is how the author lambasted the club and some of its guests. I am not defending whatever happens inside the club (for all I know, the same scene happens in other clubs – Bed, Absinth, Embassy, Alchemy, Warehouse135 - straight and gay clubs). I am writing about how rude and how hypocrite the author is. Another blog trying to make a scene surfaced yesterday as well - http://parteeepeople.blogspot.com. I don't know why these gay people (I'm assuming that they are of "our kind") discriminate their own. Exposing people as if they don't have skeletons in their dirty closets.

Let the first gay guy, not guilty, not even once, of having too much make-up or became a fashion victim cast the first stone.

I know that people here, and almost everywhere, are shallow, superficial, insecure, and essentially fickle. I know that I am shallow, superficial, insecure, and essentially fickle, but I have moments of clarity that make me feel as though I’m allowed to pretend otherwise. I see so much bigotry in the press, on web logs, in society that I feel ill.. I’ve been gay-bashed – both by straight people and by gay people.

It’s a dog-eat-dog world. Gay vs Gay.