Feynn:
For the last three years, I’ve developed my personality from the pathetically shy creature I used to be and blossomed as an individual. I have been opened up to new ways of thinking, new concepts of ethical, philosophical, political, and religious thought, and new experiences by my exposure to the gay community.
At half-past eleven pm, I make myself coffee, shower, shave, put on my nice tight jeans or some sexy camo’s, choose a good-looking t-shirt to put on, maybe add a vest or collared shirt especially if it’s cool out. I walk down through quiet, dark city streets to a neighbourhood where everything is lights and sounds. Men and women stroll around, carelessly chatting and holding hands, laughing and gossiping, as if it were four pm on a lazy weekend afternoon.
I go into my favourite club, pay my admission. There aren’t a whole lot of people yet. I sit down, and watch some guys dance. They’re enjoying the music, moving their bodies, enjoying the sensation of sheer energetic motion.
A little group walks into the club and I recognize a guy I know who I haven’t seen for six months. I wave him over, kiss him on both cheeks, greet his friends. His friends go off to the other dance floor, and we sit and chat, coming up to date on what’s been going on in our lives. We exchange phone numbers.
The music’s a bit slow, so I walk out and head over to the local 24-hour coffee shop. I run into a guy I know over the internet; we sit and yak about some weird stuff he’s seen online. As we talk, my favourite English teacher in history walks by. He’s the one who taught the two queer-subtext-in-literature courses I took in CEGEP, the best English courses I ever took. I love him, he’s fabulous. He tells me he’s going to be teaching a course at my university in January. I promise to take it. I know it’ll be great. He gives me his email address so I can keep in touch.
I finish my coffee and say bye to the Internet guy, and go back in the club. It’s full now, and the DJ is whipping off one of my favourite songs after another. I love 80’s dance. I sashay into the middle of the dance floor, gyrate to the beat, lip-synch to the lyrics. I love this. I love moving my body like this. It’s a natural high. I can go crazy dancing and nobody notices because they’re all doing the same thing.
A little later on, I’m tired from my temporary exertion and the DJ has finished the little run of my favourites, so I sit down on the stairs and watch the crowd. As the beat pulses on, the twisting, jolting bodies and the flashes of the disco lights merge into an undulating mass. I stop hearing the music and seeing the individual people, and just feel myself in tune with the rhythms of everyone in the club. Their dance is my dance. It’s everyone’s dance.
The DJ plays the Pet Shop Boys number I requested earlier, and I slither back onto the floor. While I’m dancing, I see a guy in front of me. Very good looking he is, and from the way he’s looking at me I can tell he’s thinking the same thing. We smile at each other, and move closer together. We begin to bump up against each other as we dance. Soon we’re dirty dancing and it’s wonderful - I watch his muscles move under his tight t-shirt and I know something good’s going to happen.
It’s wearing down, so we dance to a few more songs and then saunter off the floor. Finally we tell each other our names. We get into a cab and head up to his place. He sits down on his bed and smiles suggestively up at me, and I sit down, feeling that thrilling mix of self-confidence, adrenaline, trepidation, and sheer horniness. I reach out my hand to him, lay it on his shoulder. He moves in against me. And things take their natural course.
They take their natural course so well, in fact, that they take it twice before we fall asleep. And once more when we wake up at noon the next morning.
Do I want to be straight?
No.
It’s nothing personal.