Who's Glenn O'Brien? The Style Guy at GQ magazine. O'Brien writes with the voice of certainty about a topic on which you might rightly question the authority of any author. But he's one of those evolved types who live in NYC and prefers being a gentleman rather than anything akin to a macho man.
I was simultaneously entertained and confused by the thought I was reading something by a British gentleman rather than an American. Somehow being a gentleman seems rather un-American at least according to me. But I appreciate O'Brien 's efforts to bring sanity to the American male.
One of the fascinating parts is straight O'Brien expounding on how he thinks straights would get more action if they acted more gay. (He also complains that you can no longer tell gays from straights -- there's less drag and camp these days. But here I think he goes astray because of lack of a more highly developed gaydar.) He discusses his experience as a straight man in gay parts of Manhattan. I enjoyed the anecdote about how he and a friend were refused entry into gay bar because they were dressed in jackets and ties (it was obvious they weren't gay: not showing enough skin).
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