Sunday, October 17, 2010

Gay men in New York City and Me




There have been one too many encounters between good looking men and moi. No wonder "all the cutest guys are gay", as i quote from all my female friends in New York City. 

At where i dance, i can safely say that there are not straight men walking those halls or dancing in those studios. From the very first day i have tried finding a single straight man to hang out with and talk about "Guy stuff" but to no avail they all don't fill the straight criteria. What i see down at the dance academy is surprising, interesting and frankly quite funny. It's all cool, now let me tell you about the incidents that i have... encountered.

1. I was getting out of my ballet gear in the changing room and this mature man walks in, claims to be called Mark and is a pianist for one of the Ballet classes. As we introduced ourselves, we shook hands and once our hands connected his face suddenly broke into a smile. "Oh my god what is this?! What soft hands you have!" he said, feeling my palm as he said this. I was standing there only in my ballet belt, in the midst of putting on my pants. Lets just say i politely let go and got the hell out of there. 

2. It was early tuesday morning, i was in my ballet tights and warming up at the barre in the hall waiting for the studio to be feel. It was pretty crowded and as i was scouting around to see if there was anyone i knew i caught eyes with this other ballet male, he was warming up on the floor. As i turned away to continue stretching he winked at me. I rolled my eyes and smiled, shouldn't have done that really. Cause he came over and started stretching next to me, trying to impress me with push ups. 

3. Today at the Met museum in the greek statue section my cousin saw a guy on his phone leaning against a pole checking me out walking from one statue to another. I never noticed but hey if my cousin said so i'd believe her.




4. Bloomingdales next, browsing the many designer lines i got complimented by not 1, not 2 but 3 men about my shoes. then i accidently bumped into a man going round a corner and he told me that i looked... nice, quote "Oooo you look FINE today!" 

Got to love Bloomingdales, total ego boost. That's all the encounters so far, but you can bet there will be more. Guess that's the life i've chosen, being in the musical theatre industry and all. 

- Ballerhino   

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