2. Name A Queer Celebrity Who Isn't An Activist Or A Punchline

​A half century approaches on cruise control
high beamed in the oncoming lane . and there is nothing
I can do but wait for it to pass me . and blind someone
else . I’m listening to an audiobook version of my autobiography . as read
by Ellen DeGeneres . affecting an offensive impersonation of Charles
Nelson Reilly . and it’s hard to render what’s really happened to me . and
what I made up to make myself seem more
interesting . My first dead boyfriend is a mantra . I whisper when I need
to remember I am human . and can survive . grief .
 
I place his body between the one night stand . who showed up at my work
when I wouldn’t respond to his texts . and the long-term boyfriend who pretended
his father had a heart attack so he wouldn’t have to pay me his back rent
 
Which of them told me I was unlovable ? Which of them
asked me if I would marry them ? so that they could establish residency
in my bedroom ? And why did I laugh
at neither of them ? When I was trying to determine which celebrity
would be the most absurd choice to read . the audiobook
of my autobiography . I googled famous gay sluts .
and the only thing that came up was porn . When I asked my partner
to name a queer person real or fictional . famous for either
sleeping around or being awful . neither of us
could come up with a single name . So why are supposedly straight Republicans so afraid
of our influence ?