New Year’s wishes

It’s that time of the year when we all look ahead with hope and optimism and make our resolutions and pledges for the coming year. Inevitably, we vow to lose weight, get that promotion at the office, be more caring partners, keep up the yard, take out the trash regularly, call our family more often and just all in all be better people.

Herer are share some of my wishes for the gay and lesbian community for 2007. Some of the things on my wish list are personal some are universal and some are light-hearted jabs at this thing we call the gay and lesbian community, that little enclave we’ve come together to create in hopes of making a better world than where most of us came from.

Whatever’s on your wish list, I wish you luck and happiness in working to achieve it this coming year.

I wish gay men and lesbians saw more of the things they have in common rather than the things that separate them.

I wish Hillary would do the right thing and refrain from mounting a presidential campaign.

I wish the Republicans would finally see that their real “base” is not the wacky right wing.

I wish I wasn’t still so enamored with the last man who broke my heart.

I wish men would quit breaking my heart.

I wish all closeted gay politicians, including Fla. Gov. Charlie Crist, would come out.

I wish there were half the gay bars and twice the gay book reading clubs.

I wish there wasn’t so much attitude in the gay community.

I wish gay men would hook up before 3 a.m.

I wish gay men would talk about something other than what body part they worked out at the gym today and what happened to the price of their real estate this month.

I wish the real estate market would rebound.

I wish I didn’t know by heart the measurement of every one of my body parts.

I wish I had bigger arms.

And a bigger chest.

I wish we still didn’t feel the need to bury ourselves in gay ghettos.

I wish my neighborhood would turn gay.

I wish we weren’t occupying a foreign country.

I wish the media would tell us how many Iraqi civilians are dying in Iraq as frequently as they tell us how many American soldiers die there.

I wish no one were dying in Iraq.

I wish that we won’t leave Iraq too early and let the situation deteriorate into a civil war.

I wish gay guys would stop wearing their collars turned up. It didn’t look good the first time around back in the ’80s.

I wish gay society wasn’t so youth-obsessed.

I wish I was about 10 years younger.

I wish gay men valued the size of each other’s hearts and intellects as much as we value the size of each other’s penises.

I wish the right guy would call me “Daddy.”

I wish guys wouldn’t start conversations online with the word, “stats?”

I wish I spent less time online.

I wish the men I wanted to have sex with were the same ones I wanted to date.

I wish I got asked out on dates.

I wish we’d find the cure for AIDS.

I wish gay men would stop barebacking and putting ourselves at risk.

I wish gay and lesbian relationships weren’t treated as second class. I wish we had the simple right to get married.

I wish gay and lesbian people understood why we need to continue our fight for marriage, even if it makes us unpopular with some voters.

I wish I had somebody to marry.

I wish you all the best in 2007.

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Posted by 4health on 01-18-2007 at 02:01 pm
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