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Title: Drag Queens Don't Get Fat
Post by: Shana A on January 13, 2012, 09:22:33 AM
Post by: Shana A on January 13, 2012, 09:22:33 AM
Gabriel Rotello
Author, journalist, and documentarian living in L.A.
Drag Queens Don't Get Fat
Posted: 1/12/12 08:09 PM ET
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gabriel-rotello/drag-queens-dont-get-fat_b_1196799.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gabriel-rotello/drag-queens-dont-get-fat_b_1196799.html)
The fabulous Simon Doonan has a new book out called Gay Men Don't Get Fat, which purportedly proves that gay men -- with our fashion sense, knack for accessories, and caloric, if not colonic, wisdom -- are actually French women. Now, I normally consider Simon infallible on matters fashionable and gay. But when I was in France a while ago, I had a life-changing insight that now gives me an ever-so-slight quibble with his thesis. So in deference to Doonan, let me explain.
My insight came after I had struggled to speak French in the very gay Marais and discovered that despite all my efforts, I still had significant language problems. In my case, the biggest problem was not syntax or subjunctives or gender, as horrendous as they are. It was my "Madame" problem.
Author, journalist, and documentarian living in L.A.
Drag Queens Don't Get Fat
Posted: 1/12/12 08:09 PM ET
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gabriel-rotello/drag-queens-dont-get-fat_b_1196799.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gabriel-rotello/drag-queens-dont-get-fat_b_1196799.html)
The fabulous Simon Doonan has a new book out called Gay Men Don't Get Fat, which purportedly proves that gay men -- with our fashion sense, knack for accessories, and caloric, if not colonic, wisdom -- are actually French women. Now, I normally consider Simon infallible on matters fashionable and gay. But when I was in France a while ago, I had a life-changing insight that now gives me an ever-so-slight quibble with his thesis. So in deference to Doonan, let me explain.
My insight came after I had struggled to speak French in the very gay Marais and discovered that despite all my efforts, I still had significant language problems. In my case, the biggest problem was not syntax or subjunctives or gender, as horrendous as they are. It was my "Madame" problem.