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“No,” Ryan said. “Not necessarily straight men. But always, gay or
straight, masculine men.”
“Last week,” Kweenie said, “a queen I know asked me to help him go
straight. He wanted to know if I knew any straight guys he could date.”
Ryan reached out and grabbed Kweenie’s hand. “Some women are
educable,” he said. “We’re still working on this one.”
“Bastard!”
“Bitch!”
“Boys and girls!” Opel said.
“You mean,” January asked, “that gay men don’t want to fuck with
gay men?” She looked puzzled. “How utterly droll!”
“Not if they can help it,” Kick said.
“They?” January said.
“All gay men are homosexuals,” Opel said, “but not all homosexuals
are gay.”
“We’re men who prefer other men who are men,” Ryan said. “I don’t
think any of us know where the subspecies of gay men came from exactly.
Probably from the city of Lacoste on the planet Faberge.”
“Homomasculine men,” Kweenie singsonged the line, “have more in
common with heteromasculine men than they do with gay men.”
“Wait just a minute,” January said. “You’re confusing me. I don’t like
to be confused by rhetoric.”
“This isn’t rhetoric,” Ryan said. “It’s a concept lesson.”
“What you see here before you,” Robert Opel said, “are homomas-
culine men.”
“Except for me.” Evan-Eddie inserted himself back into the circle.
“This is such unmitigated semantic bullshit.”
“Does that mean,” January said, looking hopefully to Kick, “that you
sometimes fuck women?”
“I’d sooner fuck a woman,” Kick said, “than fuck an effeminate gay
man.”
January got the vapors. She reached into her clutch and pulled out
a small snifter. She took a hit up both nostrils and handed the coke to
Kweenie.
“Help yourself, darlings.” Her intensity deepened. “Don’t bullshit
me,” she said. “I didn’t come all the way up here from El Lay to eat your
San Francisco Attitude. If you’re onto something, I want to hear it. But
don’t bullshit me. I’m serious, boys and girls! I’ve got the budget for this
TV thing. My prediction? If we do it right? Big. BIG! Kick’s face and
physique! Appealing not repelling! Showing up the sexiness of you...what

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