Playing to Stereotype - Now that Jamie and I have moved into the demographic of home-owning urban gay couple (a/k/a settled queens), it just seems natural that we went to see our first gay comedic play including cast nudity by a former porn star. (Of course we went with an uncharacteristically young crowd whose combined age, as Jamie put, was less than the audience's average.)

"My Boyfriend the Stripper," on a month-long run at the Source Theatre, was about what you'd expect -- snappy dialogue (mostly put-downs) from jaded gay queens who do little more than complain until they meet the adonis with the heart of gold. Said adonis (more revealing pics here) then changes their lives by leading them inexhorably to deep thoughts about the meaninglessness of their former selves. Horribly cliched, the play revolved around three friends of differing ages who all dated the same queer studies professor during their coming-out college days. One of our friends said afterwards, "What have we learned? we learned that any one of us could write a play." Only our former porno man, in a role that must have been a real stretch, bared all. But I was more intersted in the prof's current fling, a student played by one very cute and surprisingly hairy-chested 20-ish actor named Chad Tyler. (He severely tested my cyber-stalking skills, but I believe that's him in the second photo, which doesn't do him credit.)

Meanwhile, in other stereotype news, Jamie reports that he very much enjoyed Tuesday's Cher concert special on NBC.