
I was at the NBC Tent last night — yes, watching the Provoq men gyrate in their skimpiest you’d think there was a shortage of clothing in Metro Manila. It was my friend Tony who bought me a ticket while I was away last week (thanks Tony!) and he was beaming when we met up at The Fort right before the show, “according to the guy who sold me the VIP tickets, you’d think it will be the matronas and old rich gay men who are buying the VIP tickets — but the profile of those who have bought is actually more of the yuppie types.”
That echoed what I read from the prolific blogger rddantes of the famous Men In The Philippines blog. I thought, either it’s some marketing blurb, or it’s true. Something to confirm, and perhaps get excited about.
So there we were last night, at the VIP section of the tent, and as I scanned, rubber-necked and eyeballed the other folks around the area, I chided Tony, “what yuppies are you talking about?! These guys are double our age!” It was a perfect testament to the cliche, “jokes are half meant.”
While there were some who were perhaps in our same generation, a good majority of the guys in the VIP area were pretty much “senior.” One particular guy who sat in the couch, if my guess is right, must be beyond his 50’s, with white hair and hands gnarled by years clutching the Provoq magazine. I was thinking out loud when I told Tony, pointing to the guy, “I don’t want to be like him when I get old.”
Tony reminded me, “judgmental ka ha! What’s the problem with an old guy watching a show like this?”
That somehow led me to deep thinking. So while Johnron Tanada, Chester Nolledo, and Harry Laurel strutted their packed black thongs on stage I was thinking about Tony’s comment. I thought that perhaps I was keeping a deep-seated and unconscious bias against old gay men, against these “Dirty Old Gay Men”? I like challenging myself this way because it broadens my thinking. And so as Chester reached down the floor on stage, dancing to some thumping music, his butt crack reveals a wee bit more enough for the audience to gasp as if in unison — there I was, half ogling, half in deep thought, “why did I not want to be like this ‘Dirty Old Gay Man’?”
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