would you like to take a survey about gays and fashion?

[missmimesis]

If so, you are in luck

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[monkey1976]

age: 33

[bart_calendar]

age:40

[missmimesis]

thanks!

would you by any chance do me a huge favor and link to this on your blog? I feel like you have a huge readership that likes to answer questions, esp. about clothes and sexuality, and I would love to get responses from some of them...

[bart_calendar]

Sure.

Is this for your thesis? Or something else?

Just so I know how to pitch it to people.

[missmimesis]

thanks! yes, it is for my dissertation, though in a sort of peripheral way -- it's very useful to me in trying to work out some ideas, but isn't intended as any kind of actual research and won't be cited/quoted in the thing. (Unless someone says something that turns out to be particularly relevant/awesome, in which case I might take that back, but would ask them first!)

[msmsgirl]

age: 29

[missmimesis]

yes -- I am working on a new intro about The Devil Wears Prada; and that speech is now the subject of what is one of my longest sentences ever -- it perhaps will end up as THE longest, as I sense an oncoming obsession with it...

I don't know about bisexuals! Except Calvin Klein... I mean, I would not be the least bit surprised if many of these people had had sex with women at some point -- but I would not say that made them bisexual, necessarily, not to mention in a tradition of genius bisexual men... Who are the dance ones??

[bart_calendar]

My ex wife was, for a while, a member of the American Ballet Company and told me that while most of the boys preferred boys, when they were bored they'd also do girls.

[msmsgirl]

ya know, it's funny -- off the top of my head I was thinking of Lincoln Kirstein, Fosse, Michael Bennett (A Chorus Line), Balanchine, and Robbins in a category of "genius bisexual men" -- but then it turns out that Robbins was gay gay gay, Fosse was actually straight, Bennett claimed he was, and Balanchine apparently was, although he and Mikhail Baryshnikov are in my mind at least a "maybe" according to rumor

[little_bounce]

age: 34

[sloanepeterson5]

age: 31

[bart_calendar]

I'm not sure I agree with you about Calvin Klein.

[missmimesis]

Calvin Klein has been married to a bunch of ladies, though is reputed to be bisexual, I think...

(btw, in my phrasing of that caption question I did not mean to imply that YSL was currently alive...I do know that that is, sadly, not the case.)

[bart_calendar]

I know that Calvin has been married, I just don't think he's "straight."

I think he's firmly in the "other" category.

Also, I'm surprised that at least one person didn't know that was YSL - I thought he was like Andy Warhol in the sense of being iconically recognizable.