A day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Lesson #14048
Thursday I went to dinner with Charles and a new guy he is seeing. We had a very nice dinner in the same restaurant we went to on new years eve. This dinner was much much better than at new years. The service was better and the food was at least edible this time. Honestly it surpassed edible, it was rather good. This new guy that Charles is seeing is quite nice. Along with being handsome, intelligent two Charles prerequisites (my opinion only), he is tall, blond, and republican. These three ar not only not Charles prerequisites but I don't remember him ever having dated anyone that fit this description. It wasn't long after we sat down that his being a republican came up. I don't think that I am obessed with politics, but it is someithing that comes up often. This time it was in reference to Ilian Gonzaolez. I was talking about how I felt that the boy should be sent back to his father and therefor getting him back to a normal life and out of our news media so that they could start discussing universially imporant issues. We started to talk about how we disagreed and that is when it came out that he was a republican. I must admit I was a little surprised. I still find the idea of agreeing with the majority of republcian stances on the social issues hard to understand but also the idea of being gay and republican down right unfathomable, to me that is like being black and pro south during the civil war.
There was a slight interruption in my writing - as if you could tell- but Andy formerly of Charles and Andy just called. He and our friend Alma are doing the Aids walk this Saturday. It starts on the Plaza, just a few blocks from my house and he wanted to know if I wanted to join them. I hadn't really heard from him since the breakup and thought that I had lost a friend. You know how when friends break up you often loose one or the other. I thought from that relationship Andy was going to be the casualty but aparently not. Hope springs eternal. We made tentative plans for Saturday and definite plans for dinner and a movie for Sunday.
Back to the original subject. I somehow managed to go for years with out meeting any gay republicans or for that matter few black republicans. Yet somehow in the last couple of years I have met several of both. Last year I joined a group of gay men who got together every couple of weekends to play board games and talk. At one of these nights I found myself in the ketchen during one of our game breaks (where every self respecting gay will find him/her self at some point during a party) when I got to talking to the guys who where around me Ifound that I was the only non conservitive in the room . Now I must admit that most of them where fiscal conservitives, which I can understand but when delving deeper I found that a number of them were also social conservitives something that I just don't fathom.
There is a saying that I can't quite remember about being young and a democrate and getting older and becoming republican. The jist of which is that most people change as they age. Part of which I think is better financial security. What ever the reason my be I seem to not have gotten much more conservitive as I have aged but those around me seem to have.
Though I may not be much more conservitive I have at least mellowed. I now know several people who are quite conservitive but whom I like and consider friends. Who whould have thunked it.
