Mirror Image
n. An image that has its parts arranged with a reversal of right and left
The conversation went something like this:
(JD) Mickey Dolenz is going to be in town! Do you remember the Monkees or are you too young? (T) I’m just a little bit too young. Weren’t they on TV around 1967?
(JD) Yeah. . .1965 to ’68. (T) Yeah. I was born in ’65.
(T) I’m more the age of Shawn Cassidy. Do you remember him? I had his posters all over my room. Hey, you remember Leif Garrett?? I had posters of him too!
(JD) Of course I remember Shawn Cassidy!!!! I’m gay. . .remember???
Wait a minute. . .you don’t get to be gay when you want to fit in or take part in a conversation and then turn around tonight and go to some Homosexuals Anonymous meeting in order not to be gay anymore! That’s not fair to those of us who really are gay and have dealt with it.
You can’t do that. . . can you?
Those of us who have officially earned our membership cards in the “great gay fellowship” would never do anything like that. Once we learn the secret handshake and have received our second or third toaster oven as a reward for recruiting new members into the club we never act straight. Not even when we want to fit in or take part in a water cooler conversation at work. . .do we?
Mirror image indeed.
5 comments:
Hmm... they didn't have 'The Monkees' repeats where you came from? I remember them well...lol. I also had a huge crush on Leif Garret, loved the poster in his leather pants! think THAT is why I am gay?
I don't know. . .but that poster might be why I am!!! Laughing!
It's funny, this dance we do, isn't it?
Please tell me you also had the Kristy McNichol poster next to Shawn and Leif...
No. . .for me it was Jo from "Facts of Life". . .
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