LL finally had his Paris last minute crash course from Notre Dame to Sacré Coeur with a brief stop at Place Vendôme and Palais Royal. So now Damien and KMZ can stop the bullshit. LL even managed to tell me on top of Sacré Coeur that an “ open relationship means I get a lot of sex and you stay at home crying” which was definitely à-propos and romantic. I could feel some kind of a connection and got teary-
eyed. Everyone should travel to Paris at least once in their life…it surely was LL’s last time. Next year, we’ll go to Italy, there is more opportunities for extra-marital sex and sexual tourism I hear.
We will return by the 10:25 a.m. flight tomorrow (I lit a candle to Saint Padou, the Patron Saint of Air France Upgrades at Sacré Coeur). I am quite tired to be honest: I had to concentrate very hard for the last ten days. We had so many diners and lunches with past friends and estranged family member. It felt that I was on an HRC-sponsored travel trying to lobby conservative French people into accepting at their table the gay ecumenical couple. Not as exciting as being the token jewish gay guy in DC jail, but still a major accomplishment.
How very novel we were this Christmas season in the XVIth ! It is real easy for us to be the token gay friends because we have many degrees, nice jobs, corduroy pants, shirts, blazer and sensible opinions. LL almost does not look jewish. And it is obvious that I am a retired raging queen and went through heavy counseling. We do not have Brazilian bracelets. We mimic happiness and faithfulness very well. We control our hand movements at all time and never wear cartoon socks. We offer flowers and not coke at diner parties. We avoid topics such as same-sex marriage, porn, anal sex, the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Our small wrinkly simian head and humanlike body look almost straight but tanner. We hide our jealousy when we watch pictures of their babies and our hatred when we talk to their wives. We are neither self-centered nor shallow at first sight. It must be REALLY tough for you to fit in. We can.
Thank god they release us back in the wilde tomorrow…
Talking about "being really tough for you to fin in", truth is "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw
Posted by: Frederico C | Friday, January 06, 2006 at 04:44 PM
"the patron saint of Air France upgrades"
That was really funny. Good luck on the 100 million hour flight back to the states.
Congrats on the nod from Toby. You are my hero.
Posted by: Damien | Saturday, January 07, 2006 at 12:05 AM