Last weekend was the ultimate straight-pride parade for Ottawa... HOPE Beach Volleyball Tournament. But with 17,000 shirtless, tanned hunks walking around looking for attention, the question was raised: 'Where are all the fags?'
There was a serious lack of man-lover action at the ole' Mooney's Bay on Saturday. With no cost, or real excuse (ie/ I'm still hungover from Toronto Pride) to be missed, what gives? Most gay men in any other city would jump at the chance to get drunk on cheap concert-style draft beer and ooogle the goodies. It's also not like the event hadn't been advertised - radio spots etc... had been around for months!
My theory is that gay men avoid HOPE for the same reason they avoid pool parties: too self conscious to take off their shirt in public. This is ridiculous, considering some of the bodies that WERE on display that day. Shame, really - if you start skipping all of life's little pleasures, what's left to enjoy?
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