Gloria's Gay Equation

Ok....having decided that one has to live out loud and in colour, one also takes responsibility for ones own opinions and musings.Such is so that I have thought to question the 'gay' equation...Gay for me has always been apolitical point of view and not one of sexual preference.The fact remains just having sex with the same sex doesn't actually make you gay queer or anything of the sort.Merely human.
So what is the gay equation.
To my mind it is the constant trying to prop one's self esteem up against what runs paralell to the norm.Times have changed for sure if one takes note of current movie and television trends.The happy homosexual has moved from campy hairdresser and gossip columnists to men without apparent neon signs making out on television. But does that change how..the gay scene' works.
To often I have heard that anybody trying to market the pink dollar is in for a hard time.Mainly due to the fickle nature of a community and it's makeup.Or is it because we have to put ourselves in the shop window,or in as many shop windows before we can settle to a relationship in the 'burbs'...and compare real estate investments as if they were children.
Also,the most common complaint is how the bar industry ,is so bad served by barstaff who are more intent on ticking the 'jewish' typewriter than giving service to customers.
Where being loud and in colour has become a paralell to other countries...where the colourful world of drag seems to be something to draw attention in major cities but rarely sees itself in the local small town environment.So much for the example of 'Priscilla'
But really it doesn't matter how we treat ourselves.....or how we try to educate the masses. If we were to have a healthier attitude to sexual experience,and stopped masking our needs and wants behind the world of the 'cottage' ..the internet..and other conduits...we might have a chance to normalise...
After all looking at a man's crutch isn't always best way to introduce oneself.
So....I ask...and my quest has always been...what is it..and why amI questioning the fact that,despite outward appearances....we fail to grapple with our base instincts..
Pride is for parades.
What makes a gay eaquation...I am still searching for the clue

oh and did we forget you...Here's to the Gorgon

and talking of gay old things.Did I miss you out Truman.
No I wasn't looking over your outstanding talent...it is just you always managed to tell that to the world yourself....but everybody whether they like it or night imagines what it is to have Breakfast at Tifanys....but did they get it right....
Holly Golightly...hmmmm did they not figure that that was.............A drag queen...
SO..what next..In Cold Blood.....Genius...and then if the muses are heard you attack those who were most dear......Now I do have a similar theory..about how a gay man reacts to criticism.....and you certainly had the one liners.....but lest we forget..he was the most beaitiful boy of his age
Truman Capote

Gore Vidal

The Last of the Mochicans

Now if I do things in three.I save the best for last.
I would have to vote for this author as an all time American.
He's everything I would believe that America stood for,stands for...from freedom of speach to wry commentary of the lives of american politics this is the well from which I believe modernist American thinking can be garnered.
Gore Vidal.
From the City and the pillar...to the outrageous Myra Breckinridge
and thats on that little finger...here is an author who has made it his
personal ambition to log and file the human condition and in fact has raised awareness
of....the mores of the western world...So tell me I am wrong...but may his scathlingly funny appocolyptic novel 'kalki' never come to pass....
Politics
Sexual Behaviour
and the ambition of civilisation....
Now how do they make sound bites like that without getting it wrong