the happy lecture

Had astounding response from the gender class. Perhaps it was due to the fact that not everyone had gay friends. But anyway, it was the one lecture that most people turned up for and most people applauded loudly. At least they seemed a lot more alive than during normal lectures.

So the lecture group was broken up into small groups of about ten people each, and each group was assigned one gay man, and we got to ask whatever questions we wanted to ask. The bolder of the lot asked questions on their sex life, and got sufficiently gratifying answers, although I had a suspicion some of the guys were really out to get the graphic details for newsworthiness or something. Our group had a really sweet teacher who was featured in SQ21 and he talked a lot on the The Power's covert anti-gay measures, which didn't really come as a surprise considering Your Humble Narrator is a fangrrl of conspiracy theories. Prints The Lecturer decided to sit in (to spy) on our group, which I think considerably reduced the number of questions we ventured to ask.

Interestingly, there were no lesbians, and the guest lecturer attributed it to the fact that they are a reclusive community. Hmm. What intrigued me is how the guys were so out and proud, you admire them for their resilience, yet you don't know how much of it is a front they have to put up for the world, by nature of the 'gay' label.