On
to the Fair! First, we stop in on some friends of Bill's in the building
across the back court yard and I am treated to something that can only
happen in SF. Two men who live and work in an exclusively gay world. They
rarely interact with straight people. Life can develop a sensibility not
unlike "Paris Is Burning" but without the drag. I drank a margarita, ate
peanuts and cookies at 11 AM. I'll call it a five room apartment, smaller
than Bill's. Jim, one of the boys, had on display pictures of himself at
ages 15 and 16 with dates at school dances. The girls in the pictures were
wearing wrist corsages. I engaged him in conversation about girls he had
dated and he told me how abstract it was to kiss them. Like being involved
in something he had seen so many times and knew so well but also being
very remote. Another guy came into the conversation. He said he was sure
his old girlfriend was making some man very happy and that she was a successful
business analyst in the south somewhere. He had a shaved head, no eyebrows
and a lot of eye make-up. He arrived wearing massive sun glasses. For some
reason he felt the need to hide the detailed eye-work on the street.