Simply Me

“Straight looking” and anything that sounds like that is as much of an insult to me as being called a fag or any other derogatory term. Having your sexual preferences is one thing but marginilizing people if they happen to be effiniminate is hypocritical and dangerous. I’m me. Sometimes I’m flamboyant, sometimes I’m not and being asked to express myself any other way is just as bad as being asked to make my way back into that dusty old closet.”

— A man in the cover of an article in TheGaily.ca, a new media source for Canada’s queer community