Do you dance?
(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)OK. I’ve known for a long time that I am not the typical gay guy. But sitting at San Francisco’s famous EndUp surrounded by one of the best sound systems in town. Yet I still just don’t get dancing. I feel like Diane Fossey watching the behavior of her gorillas. On rare occasions I’ve been drunk enough to really dance. But generally attempting to dance just makes me feel that I look as silly as everyone else. I’m curious. In some ways I feel like my homofabulous gene was replaced by the comic fanboi gene. Any other gay geeks feel similarly? or are the rest of you all ready for SO You Think You Can Dance? THOUGHTS? The closest I’ve gotten to dancing was being really drunk at an 80s night. I just cannot dance to techno.
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11/14/2009 at 12:42 am
Unfortunately, I can totally relate. I used to be a great dancer, but at 41 the music at clubs doesn’t appeal to me. My iPod is full of Stevie Nicks, Morrissey and George Michael.
I also didn’t get the decorating gene, the cooking gene, the fussy + tidy gene or the fashion gene.
But I can tell you very guest star from every issue of Marvel Team Up and the issue number of the 1970s Teen Titans revival.
Are those Queer Eye guys still around to help me?
11/14/2009 at 1:06 am
I do my best to keep up the fashion gene and the decorating gene (in my own way – which works in over 100 action figures from the JLA, Avengers, FF, and Teen Titans.
All the Queer Eye Guys would do is throw out your comics and tell you to get with the program.
11/14/2009 at 2:43 am
I’m not much for dancing except on the very few occasions when I’m drunk enough, the mood hits me and they’re playing 99 Luft Balloons! I’m a terrible dancer, but that’s compounded by irritating boys who think it’s their duty to coerce me into the act. I’ve really got to feel it. I’m probably the same as you. It can be enjoyable, but very seldom and on my own terms. There are plenty of boys who feel exactly the same way but just don’t admit it.
11/14/2009 at 9:20 am
I love to dance. I can be a bit self conscious about it, especially depending on times where clothing is suggested to come off. Foam parties, or just my bf tugging on my shirt.
11/14/2009 at 1:08 pm
I can count the number of times I’ve danced as an adult on one hand. The fact I dance like a flopping, freshly-landed fish is besides the point. ;o) The only aspects of the gay gene I’ve appear to have gotten is just the sex and scented candles part. No fashion consciousness, no decorating IQ, no love of musicals.
11/14/2009 at 2:10 pm
I couldn’t dance until I started doing aerobics, which taught me how to keep a beat and loosened my hips. I can dress myself ok, but it is tough being colour blind to coordinate decor or outfits.
11/14/2009 at 3:47 pm
I’m actually a huge fan of certain types of poppy dancey stuff (hipster remixes of other bands or brit-pop) but under no circumstances do I ever try to dance. Even drunk.
11/14/2009 at 4:13 pm
I used to be all about the boogie… but that was when I was a few years younger and on ‘the scene’. Since turning my back on all that I’ve turned more into a bar/lounge kinda guy. I prefer the conversation to the cruising.
But in saying that I’m about to head round the world, SF included, and intend on dancing like no-one is watching….
11/14/2009 at 8:28 pm
Dancing, definitely. Comics, without a doubt. And if having matching Vans sneakers and watches for 4 out of the 8 Lantern Corps doesn’t qualify as gay geek chic, I don’t know what will.
But definitely not tidy.
11/15/2009 at 3:02 am
I’m also lacking the obsessively tidy gene.
11/15/2009 at 1:12 pm
I’m very tidy and clean, but embassed to dance out in public. I’m not a great dancer, but I do enjoy moving to the music. While at the Madonna concert – Confessions I danced a bit but in a small space. No one really couldn’t do so. It was packed. I would like to be more open about dancing.
11/15/2009 at 1:15 pm
It is a very interesting debate. I like to dance but generally only if I like the music. I prefer poppy dance stuff as opposed to remixes and other electronic crap. I generally don’t care how my dancing style looks.
I inherited the sports gene. I both like to play and watch a bunch of sports. I can get into musicals but only certain ones.
My decorating and dress gene seems to have malfunctioned. I prefer comfort to style any day.
11/15/2009 at 11:07 pm
I don’t dance either. Only place I dance is at home, by myself. I just look silly and I don’t dance well. Just feels like everyone is staring at me if I actually get up and dance.
11/16/2009 at 6:53 pm
Even at my drunkest and cokiest (days long past, btw), I knew my limitations. I have no sense of rhythm and would, at most, do the shoulder sway but no more.
11/28/2009 at 8:06 pm
I danced for the first time this Summer. Yup, it took 30 years in the making, but I did it. It helps when nobody around knows who you are. Now that I’ve gotten my feet going, I’m ready for more, more, MORE!