“but there’s nothing older than being jaded.”

Hey. Hey. No need to be insulting.

Philadelphia is okay.

” It was once, when I was far younger, but I’ve always preferred two legs to two wheels. … for the first time in a woefully long time, I felt young. Yes, I know, I’m only twenty-six year old …”

Okay. If 26 is any way an age common to most queerty editors, and -give me a break- they’re feeling any way “old” at that age, then I think I have the clue I’ve sought as to why so many of the morning goods specimens look little older than the ‘kids’ my mate and I might hire to mow our lawn!

I spent a week in Philadelphia one weekend.

Try playing lacrosse. I’m sure Evans, Finnerty, and Seligmann would love for you to join them. And they can afford Manhattan apartments big enough to play it in now.

NYC is where I first discovered that life was worth living, that there were intelligent friendly people who love to talk. And endless, exciting pursuits. Endless beautiful men.

If you think Phily is great , you’re just not digging what you’ve got. Stay there for a while or come to the midwest. & see the cows.

yeah, you’re 26 honey but you look like you’ve suffered.

take a friggin basic composition class. Being 26 alone is not enough to make you interesting. zzzzzzz…..

^^^ Oh, come on, this isn’t the worth-written thing I’ve ever read.Close, but not the worst. OK, very close.

There’s something weirdly insulting about a 26 year old feigning a sense of Weltschmerz.

That said, y’all are some harsh bitches.

Fucking hell 8^(

This is the second time Andrew has opened up and you’ve jumped down his throat. At least this time you’re not trashing his father.

Andrew, you’re not jaded–your readers are.

Stop acting like little faggots.

You know I really don’t think decent grammar and sentences that have at least some relation to those that preceded them is really too much to ask. Even on-line publishing should be able to accompish that! If that makes me a “faggot” well……count me queer. I read the article twice, to make sure I was being fair. I still don’t have a clue what the article was about. Rodeo? Bike riding? Teddy bears? Maybe the author has a good meth connection and so the editor is trying to flatter him?

Ditto: the impact of authentic experience is a perogative that journalists need to exercise, so that we can know them; it’s terrific that Andrew trusts us to talk about something that is significant to him. I suppose that coming to NYC was at least as important to me as getting away can be to someone who is gets away.
Why be such bitches, don’t we live in a creepy uncivil enough world as it is?

I’m willing to bet Andrew is big enough not to take the comments here too seriously.

With all due respect, Andrew, you really do need to get the fuck out of New York for a bit if a trip to Philadelphia is such an adventure, or this eye-opening for you. You didn’t even make it out of your own metro area.

Get out. Travel. It might give you some added perspective that could only help your writing.

At the very least, it should stop you from writing embarassing things about how old and jaded and experienced you are at 26.

I am not interested in getting to know a journalist. A journalist’s job is to report on events, issues, cultures, politics etc. If he wants to write a memoir that is his “perogative” but call it what it is. I don’t publish my adolescent diary entries and call it “journalism”.

Sometimes a firsthand account like this tells more of the story than a dry factual article. To a young, isolated queer kid like I was, this means more than endless articles about some pride parade somewhere that I could never visit. And this is a blog, not the New York Times.

Andrew, I had fun.

As a gay journalist ask questions like:
“Do bull riders wear athletic plastic cups, or are they all hung like mules with bulges sticking out of their leather chaps ?”

Kid A, very good points. This is a blog not the NYT, plus it would have been edited to death there and much of the charm and enthusiasm removed from it. I’ve always found that getting away for a couple of days, even if I’m working, is so helpful – there’s real truth behind the phrase “a change is as good as a rest.”

Wow! a lot of pent-up frustration and personal animosity expressed agaist Andrew. I would be embarassed to write such insulting comments in public. But it takes all types.

I am glad Andrew opened up and let his hair down, so to speak. And even though I don’t agree with every editorial posted, I am also thankful for this site. So keep it up and especially keep the pictures of the hot guys coming.

good read ab :)

We’re gay. ‘Bitchy’ fits us better than ‘patronizing.’ And pretending that a poorly written article about a press junket is inspiring is patronizing.

Girls he was in town for the Gay Rodeo in Devon, Bearapalooza concert at The Lowes Hotel, and The Liberty Bears of Philadelphia Annual Bear Run.

She’s a cub!