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December 15, 2005
Gay it Forward
I would like to add a variation to Dan's post for today. He writes about the movie Pay it Forward and what a noble idea it is. I agree and while I give full credit for the title of this post to the writers at Will & Grace, I would like to give a shining example of the phenomeon we call Gay it Forward.
There is a gay man who lives in Minneapolis, let's call him Jim. As the holiday season approached he found himself booking a flight on the Northwest Airline website, taking advantage of the double miles. After purchasing his tickets he checked into the websit to reserve his seats, Jim like a window seat. Much to his dismay our hero noticed that there was NO SEAT AVAILABLE on one leg of his flight! To the phone he rushed, alright reached it is really close on his desk, dialling the helpline for NWA.
Much to his relief, the live voice on the other end of the helpline was unsettlingly high pitched, light and lispy. If not for the name identification Jim would have felt certain he was speaking with a well bred society woman, but fortunately for him it was not. For you see, Jim was speaking with another homo! Yes, somehome Jim had been connected with a gay airline employee, what are the chances!
After a great deal of charming banter, that Jim, she knows how to work the phone, not only did Jim secure a seat, but had been upgraded on all flights to First Class!
It is good to be a gay today.
Posted by JimG at December 15, 2005 08:34 AM
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"It is good to be a gay today."
Sure is, except for the self-perpetuating gay stereotype of a "unsettlingly high pitched, light and lispy" voice equating to, or even probabilistically implying, that someone is gay.
And we've all seen "Brokeback Mountain" twenty times already, right?
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at December 15, 2005 09:46 AM
fair point, I feed directly into stereotypes. Of course in this case the stereotype held true. The conversation was much more of a give away then the timbre of the voice in the long run anyhow.
Thanks for the reminder.
Posted by: jimg at December 15, 2005 10:07 AM
It is all good. I figured that you just didn't take the range/pitch of the voice as your only clue.
Glad things worked out.
Posted by: Steve at December 15, 2005 11:01 AM
Long time reader, first time responder. I am glad that the gay mafia is up and running. I have to say that while reading posts from the last couple of days, I noticed a gentleman's photo that I knew. Thank you for giving me a blast from the recent-past
Posted by: Billy at December 15, 2005 11:49 AM
a gay man working for the airline? what are the chances? you, er, i mean, your friend, jim, is so lucky! can he make my reservations to key west for me?
Posted by: lonestarsteve at December 15, 2005 02:16 PM
Atta girl...well done darling!!!
Posted by: Jeffrey at December 15, 2005 06:14 PM
please tell jim hello for me, gay or not
Posted by: Dave / higher powered at December 15, 2005 08:05 PM
first class too; I need your skill! that's awesome
Posted by: Courtney C at December 16, 2005 08:11 AM