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Gay guys who like straight guys who like guys dressed as girls
By Tony Phillips Wednesday, Jun 22 2011
http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-06-22/news/the-->-bleeped-<--->-bleeped-<--->-bleeped-<-/I'm no stranger to the walk of shame, but this is the first morning I've ridden the R train into Manhattan with metallic blue eye shadow smeared across the upper third of my face like a sloppy Warhol silkscreen. I've spent the prior evening at a bacchanal called Eden Underground: a sex party for transsexuals and their admirers in Park Slope that just rang in its one-year anniversary. What brought me to the polymorphously perverse bi-monthly Friday night was a search for gender identity's Yeti: gay men attracted to the straight men who are attracted to transsexuals—the ->-bleeped-<- ->-bleeped-<- ->-bleeped-<-.
At the party, plenty of hot, blue-collar trade search for transsexuals. Those gay men who cross-dress solely to chase these guys are called everything from "deceitful" to "blackface," but "midlife crisis" probably comes closest. They are going after what they can't have—dressed as men, anyway. Sweetie, Eden's large-and-in-charge mistress of ceremonies, sums it up as cruising for men they "could never get wearing a pair of jeans on a Saturday night."
