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Street Walkin'
by Sukie de la Croix
2003-11-19

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Another big queeny screw up has taken place; this one between the Federation of Gay Games (FGG) and Montreal 2006 over the Gay Games.

It's really irrelevant what it's about … you can read all about it in the news pages. I'm just wondering, though:

Why didn't they have it in Chicago in the first place? We were the obvious choice. We've got the community, the hotels, the lake, straight politicians who will bend over and grip their own ankles for the gay vote, and a gay-supportive Mayor who's so driven he's willing to tear up an airfield in the middle of the night to get his own way.

Why does the gay community need a Gay Games anyway? What's it for? What if athletes came out of the closet and competed as openly gay contestants in the Olympics …

& 3) Why is it when gay people try to organize anything it ends up looking and sounding like a Wagner opera?

i.e. way too much drama and the fat lady singing for days and days and days on end.

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The British Royals are in the news again, and the hot story this week is that Prince Charles was allegedly once caught doing the nasty with his valet.

Oh my God!! A Royal bisexual!!! Tell me it isn't so. Now we know how Prince Charles got those big ears. Oh hush my mouth. However, the real juicy Brit-Royal story seems to have gone unnoticed. The premature birth of a baby girl to the Countess of Wessex, who is married to the Queen's youngest son, Princess Edward.

As I write this, no name has been chosen for the child who, according to my reckoning, is eighth in line for the throne. I would suggest the name Jesus, because she truly was an immaculate conception.

According to AP: 'Prince Edward, 39, flew back from an official visit to Mauritius. After an hour's visit with his wife, he said he was 'thrilled to bits' at the birth.

''First of all I am rather shocked and delighted at the news, obviously very sorry that I was not able to be part of it,' he said.' I'm finding it extremely easy to believe that Princess Edward had no part of it.

However, as a Brit myself, my congratulations go out to the Countess of Wessex, her adoring wife, Princess Edward, and to Dr. Petri Dish, who engineered this miracle of modern science.

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I've never understood the concept of having a 'collecting' hobby. I was baffled by it yet again the other day when I met someone whose hobby was collecting rare and foreign coins.

MY QUESTION: What's the point of having money and not being able to spend it?

I mean, having a box full of Chinese coins from the Wang Dynasty don't mean shit when you're trying to buy something pretty for yourself at Victoria's Secret.

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I'm the last person to give TV viewing tips, as there's really not much on TV that I can stomach for more than a few minutes at a time.

However, I've recently become hooked on Comedy Central's Reno 911, a spoof on Cops, which has me rolling around on the floor in hysterics.

And then there's The Office on BBC America, which is virtually impossible to watch without cringing; the show is a series of massive train wrecks in office politics. I highly recommend this to anyone who has ever worked in an office.

While I'm on the subject of TV shows, does anyone else play Spot the Homo with the Antiques Roadshow?

E-mail sukie@windycitymediagroup.com .


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