Ready? Okay.
I guess this is it. I’ve been threatening for so long to make a “real” blog, and now that I’m finally doing it, I have all this apprehension about what to type. These things usually start where you introduce yourself, tell a bit about yourself, sell yourself to the audience. But I like being anonymous and mysterious, both private and public at the same time. I’m a paradox on legs.
What can I tell you, then? I’m a young queer boi living in Philadelphia, making it on my own, and I am scared – to – death of the Real World. I graduated college not too long ago, I have a job that I’m not crazy about but trudge through anyway, I live in a cute little apartment with my roommate and some throw pillows, and I’m trying to find my voice. As a writer, as a gay man, as a person, etc. I think sometimes we all feel like outcasts, really alone no matter how extroverted we try to be. I suspect that when those moods of mine hit, is when I’ll end up posting something on here…
This blog is mostly going to be about what it’s like to be young, gifted, and queer in a fairly major city in a fairly major country. (In fact, I was going to title this blog that: To Be Young, Gifted, and Queer, in an homage to Lorraine Hansberry, but somebody already took the name. Dammit.) I find it really cathartic to vent about everything from my concerns about global warming to the most recent botched sexcapade, from my struggle to find inner peace to really cute shoes that I saw in H&M last week. I’m painfully liberal, I’m awfully self-contradictory, and I’m nightmarishly verbose when you get me started.
I’m intensely secretive at the same time that I’m extremely open. Cool with that? At the very least, I hope that if you’re here and you read this far, you’re interested enough to come back once in a while and see what’s new; who knows, you might see something that catches your fancy enough to comment, or share with your friends, or what have you. Everything interests me — well, almost everything. I’m branching out.
My Pandora radio is playing The Cure’s “The Walk (Remix)”, and I am so in love with it. Go forth and download.
I suppose I’ve taken up enough space with this post thus far. Expect something more substantial to follow!
~~ PQ
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