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...The one that breaks the hearts of gay men, but is in fact straight as hell.
Thruout my life, a bafflingly large number of people have assumed I was gay--especially gay men. And, at least here in podunk Vermont, I seem to set off gaydar like a tornado siren.
I am in fact rabidly, irrevocably, heterosexual. (And at age 46 I'm not showing any inclination otherwise.) But I'm also one of those straight men that just enjoys the company of women, usually moreso than the company of men. (I have noo interest in football or hunting or going to Hooters, say.) Apparently, that's the final nail in the coffin for my notional gayness: that I *actually like women.* (Which in and of itself should require some sort of commentary...)
I'm sure that any number of women I have rejected or broken up with consoled themselves with the thought "well, he's probably queer anyway..." My only point being that it is perhaps *ever so slightly possible* that some of the heartbreaker "gay" men everybody's reminicing about were in fact...straight?
Juust a thought.
;-)
Carry on!
Andrew
