Are you gay today?

I read that a Dutch gay group is planning a pink Christmas with two Josephs and two Marys. Not sure I understand this, as records indicate that Joseph and Mary were a straight couple. Isn't it kind of like getting a straight guy to play Truman Capote, or Liberace? Or a gay guy to play John Wayne, or a straight guy to play Jack on Will and Grace?

In my kids' high school, gay was the thing to be. If you were gay, you had arrived. You were Automatically Popular, which guarantees you a life of nostalgia every time you think about high school. (A note about popular: those who weren't move on and live productive lives, while those who were may end up like a friend of mine, looking back to when she peaked, and still talking about it all the time 20 years later.) So in the effort to be popular, a couple of the boys decided to be gay. It took years before they realized that they weren't. Or till they gave up the charade in order to get girls.

In America, the gay people have been pushed into a corner and are being forced to deal with it by calling in gay. At my work, we needn't worry. We are an equal opportunity employer. Everyone is welcome and appreciated. As long as you are doing your job and bringing in money for the stockholders, and use deodorant, nobody cares about your religion, your politics, or who you do in your spare time.