Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 28, 2022

Just accepting the fact that you’re gay doesn’t mean you can look or act in ways no intelligent heterosexual woman would!!

You know: giddy and ditsy!!

Isn’t that the same haircut that started the problems between Mike and JJ?

Okay. But for the record, there is probably a reason the world is not overrun with lemmings.

This reminds me of the highlights I got in my hair about a year after a came out. It was fun to experiment with new looks since I wasn’t worrying about staying in the closet. But I ended up back to my regular hair after trying a couple of new looks. Straight, LGBT…do whatever look works for you. The funny thing is that since I am a natural redhead, I am frequently asked if my normal hair color is real or not.

In a later episode of the “Ellen” series, Ellen convinces Emma Thompson to reveal that she is … secretly … American!

So Mark genuinely believes that gay people have a particular look and uniform he needs to adopt, otherwise he’s simply pretending to be hetero instead of just being the person he’s always been. (I wonder whether Trudeau actually believed this line of argument.) I wish Andy had lived long enough to give him some advice from the perspective of an older out gay man.

So is Mark going to go flamboyant?

Coming out was big news 23 years ago. Nowadays the response to coming out is either “cool” or “sure, I figured so” or from homophobes, “[expletive deleted].”

Yup, the gay crowd is every where on the tube, getting to the point that I am only watching old shows.

Now it can be revealed: I was at the doc’s last week for my annual physical, and it turns out that, after all these years of claiming I’m six feet tall, it turns out that I’m really only 5’10". I just thot you’d probably all want to know, because it’s so very very important to who I am.