Sohail Akhavein a hairy, tatted-up, 31-year-old who loves posting thirsty pictures of himself to Instagram:
He recently attended a community luncheon in his hometown of Minneapolis.
Before the luncheon, a person who Akhavein describes as a “casual nemesis” asked him to please “Tone it down so the focus can be on the community and not your body.”
The request came after Akhavein suffered a “semi-subtle” nip slip in low-buttoned blouse stolen from his mom’s closet to a previous community gathering.
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“Ever since I attended a community progressive dinner party and served an array of Lunchables on a silver platter and Capri Suns I filled with white wine,” he tells Gay Star News.
When Akhavein told his dad about what the nemesis said, his pops responded: “Buy yourself the loudest suit your big gay heart desires” and gave him a wad of cash.
Akhavein took to Twitter to explain what happened next:
I’m an employed 31 year-old man w/a father who just deposited money in my account to “buy yourself the loudest suit your big gay heart desires” after I told him I’m going to a formal community luncheon tomorrow & was asked to “dress subtlety this time,” & my big gay ? is surging
— Sohail (@sideofhail) June 8, 2018
He followed that up with another tweet, saying he had located something in his closet to wear (his mom’s old blue leopard suit) and that he would instead be donating the cash his father gave him to a local LGBTQ charity:
Update: I’ll be making a donation in my dad’s name to a local LGBT mental health org w/the funds he gifted me & wore something I already had in my closet that fit the brief.
?Much like my queerness, I don’t take the love & acceptance I’m gifted for granted in any capacity? pic.twitter.com/fdEV7wVCgU
— Sohail (@sideofhail) June 9, 2018
Akhavein tells Gay Star News that the luncheon went “swimmingly”, adding, “There was a neighbor who told me she wished I would have informed her of my suiting option before the meeting before because she would have worn the same suit jacket.”
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dgsea06
Well, he did “tone it down”! No matter where he got the clothing, I just betcha he blindsided the haters. Lookin’ good! Let’s do more of this. Let’s show them that we are basically “normal”. We can dress normal, act normal, think normal and behave normally. But, on the other hand, when we are beset by and with the ol’ bigotry, hatred and threats to our existence we must respond and resist.
Let the “Drag Queens” do their often obnoxious parody of women with feather boas, glitter and garish face painting (Um. “Makeup”). Let us show that we are not only normal but we are human and we deserve and demand Equal Rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
No more, No less.
Thanks, Dad, your Day is tomorrow.
Heywood Jablowme
What “haters”? The article doesn’t even bother to say what kind of community group it is. It may be a LGBT group for all we know.
Jimmy Palmieri
I love him.
nitejonboy
He’s cute, just wish he wasn’t covered in all those ugly tattoos.
hansniemeijer
Huh? Toning down? Is this about the pot and the kettle?
Heywood Jablowme
Self-centered a-hole. I know the type. The community group was just trying to get some WORK done, as usual, without this self-centered a-hole hijacking everything and making everything about himself. Of course the article completely skips over what the long-suffering community group actually does.
(And I’ll bet anything this guy is “in recovery” and talks incessantly in 12-step psychobabble, while resenting it if someone doesn’t comprehend that gibberish. The dad is probably just trying to prevent the next “relapse” episode.)
But the outfit he decided on IS “toning it down” quite a bit! It’s nice.
Chrisk
All I know is that everything he does is for attention. He’s out there and that’s cool. However, now knowing the group that changes it. The guy was perfectly entitled to ask him to tone it down.
RIGay
Very hot! Love the VPL!