I like Sullivan for all kinds of reasons, and yes partly because he is a gay small c conservative. Which in some ways I am too. Of course, the default “Gay” = gay male issue is found in his posting is annoying. But more to the point, for this curmudgeonly dyke: what a scary and tastless coffin! (remember small c conservative)  However, if I am honest with myself, I will say I find myself in the midst of two worldviews here.

On the one hand, I miss the old days when being gay wasn’t about trying your damndest to assimilate, breed, and move to large bedecked houses with gas grills. On the other hand, I look at something like this, and think, oh my god, why are we always parodying ourselves. But perhaps there are things that as a lesbian of a certain age I don’t get. A gay man I respect once explained how many gay men do like to be theatrical (this was by way of an explanation as to why tuxedos are still used by gay men in gay choruses) and perhaps this does mean over the top. At least to us lookers-on. As a dyke, I guess I can’t be theatrical, just sort of colored out of the lines, and now, well, eccentric.  Or perhaps slightly mad.

But, yeah, good grief, get a load of this coffin.