Buddies
“I didn’t mind being the only unattached male in the house, but it felt odd to be the sole person of either sex without a tattoo. My brother Jim and his pal Danny D., typical ironworkers, sported standard regalia on their upper arms. And Brenda, Jim’s date, was of the downtown bimbo class: they’ll do anything for attention. Even Norma, girlfriend to Danny D. and a strictly reared Italian from Bay Ridge, shyly revealed a tiny heart inked into her right instep—“so I can hide it from my parents,” s...he told me. Thus all four representatives of the straight-couple class were decorated. And, of the freelancers, Laurie the tough-guy lesbian weighed in as well, with a death’s head on her left shoulder. That left me as the only tabula rasa in the house.
This was Water Island on a July Fourth weekend in the early 1970s. I had just discovered Fire Island, just begun to sense how neatly it essentialized gay, made its complexes intelligible; and I never turned down an invitation. Water Island, the first colony east of The Pines, was where Norma and Laurie shared a four-bedroom house with two women who had gone off on vacation, and Norma, who knew Jim through Danny D., offered Jim and Brenda the third room and me the fourth.MoreLess
This was Water Island on a July Fourth weekend in the early 1970s. I had just discovered Fire Island, just begun to sense how neatly it essentialized gay, made its complexes intelligible; and I never turned down an invitation. Water Island, the first colony east of The Pines, was where Norma and Laurie shared a four-bedroom house with two women who had gone off on vacation, and Norma, who knew Jim through Danny D., offered Jim and Brenda the third room and me the fourth.MoreLess
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