Celebrity

I'm growing mine. Two months ago I became part of what is arguably Albany, NY's most out gay couple. This is not at all hard to do in a town that is often referred to as "Smallbany". While I would never call the city that, I must admit it is certainly not a large city, and people often are not that brave here.

But I don't consider it bravery. No one cares about sexuality here. People seem very supportive of Brian and I. We theorized the other night that people truly want to support gay couples, especially in the democratic capital of a state that is considering legalizing gay marriage. The only thing is, they have no one to support. You don't see two people of the same sex walking around holding hands, giving each other little touches or even admitting relationships in this area.

On Saturday, we took it to a whole new level. I wouldn't call what we did PDA, but PDA would have given us the only possible opportunity to be more obvious as a couple. We held hands, kissed publicly and often had our arms wrapped around each other at LarkFest, an annual music festival in Center Square.

Obviously, we were the only gay couple at LarkFest that we (or anyone I know) saw doing anything like that. And that would have been perfectly fine and understandable. But later that night we went to a gay bar on Lark Street, and were still the only people that were showing any affection to each other.

Therefore, if we haven't achieved some notoriety as a couple in Albany, we're on our way to doing so.

Another high profile activity of mine recently was playing at a New York Mets game yesterday with my quintet, the Silver and Gold Brass. We played in front of Citi Field as fans were arriving. Then the group was given 10 tickets to see the game. I'm not a huge baseball fan, but oh my god the seats we had!! 12th row behind the third base line. (The tickets would have cost $180 apiece, which means that the group was basically paid $1800 for playing. Another way to look at it is that each member made $360 an hour.)

So that was my weekend. Gay celebrity and the feeling of musical celebrity. Now a gay rehearsal and I'm home! And by home I mean Brian's apartment because yeah....I like Brian's apartment. :P

Okay time to get back to work, which at this moment means chatting with Bean. PEACE! <3