Episode Four: This Gay Revolution WILL be Televised

November 19, 2007

The remaining boy-testants are all in one room together. Pants up! Actually they’re all sort of just kicking back, doing some shots and, watching this, I’m feeling right at home. One of them makes an off the cuff sexual innuendo and suddenly I’m in someone else’s bedroom. Darren and Sean are bonding; Wes, Dan, and Robb seem to share common interests. But where’s James I wonder? What gives with the “leading man?” He’s out by the pool with Andra and they’re playing with a hobby horse. And that’s not one of my patented ‘straight guy’ flights of hyperbole either. It’s actually what he’s doing.

James seems to have several of these moments. I’m calling them “parent/child switch bodies like it’s a late 80’s movie” moments. Is he going to dance on a piano in a toy store next? Or do whatever it was Judge Reinhold might have done in his lame imitation of a movie of the same sort?

When James shows up at the house to meet up with the boys I notice the deft way that Sean backs out of kissing him hello.

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