Gay or Straight? Hard to Tell - New York Times

Gay or Straight? Hard to Tell - New York Times: "Gay vagueness affects both straight and gay men. It involves more than grooming and clothes. It notably includes an attitude of indifference to having one's sexual orientation misread; hence the breakdown of many people's formerly reliable gaydar."

This is the most-emailed article today at NYT.com which is entertaining. I had just been commenting that in Switzerland, there is less of a visual line delineating who is gay and who is not. Many straight men here would mistakenly register off the charts on gaydar in the U.S., yet the community of gays here seem to look relatively more nondescript compared to the U.S. with its various scenes and subcultures with their very marked looks.

I visited Luzern (Lucerne) this weekend for Switzerland's Gay Pride festivities. It was a great weekend. The parade was low-key and felt much more like how I imagine such events are when they're more locally produced without the huge corporate sponsors that pay for ginormous floats with Smirnoff dancers. Not that I am one of the people that's totally appalled by such grand productions, but there is something distinctively nice about the community feel to it. Lots of information booths handing out materials and such, with great dance parties in the evening. I was out past 4am which is very late for an old man like me. Yvonne Moore began the evening by performing a concert, a Swiss singer whom I enjoyed greatly. She was great live.