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Style Report | Myth of the Stylish Gay Man

Harmonious with a perception that has a grip on our society like Anna Wintour has on her Prada, a visit to a predominately gay neighborhood would resonate a sudden style enlightenment. Dropping by Dupont Circle should yield such sights as those that one would expect from the Montenapoleone, in Milan. And word on the street is, the fashionably challenged men and women should flock there like herds, notebook in hand. Lets get one thing straight, all gay men are not stylish! This is a myth - and the guy to the left is clear evidence of such.
Its not hard to backtrack the origin of this myth. The myth that is the Stylish Gay Man is older than you, me, and anyone alive today - think back to Louis XVI whose failure to consummate his marriage resulted in homosexual rumors, it started before that; its worth noting that he was exceptionally stylish. Since the beginning of mankind homosexuality has been associated with a vain and perhaps more-put-together aesthetic. And the generalization is without proper claim - Edward II, Quentin Crisp, Liberace, and many others only strengthened this myth, and as a result it waltzed right into the 20th and 21st century.
"This idea comes from how awareness of homosexuals grew over the last 40 or 50 years," says designer Isaac Mizrahi. "To someone who only knew of three gay people, it looked like all gay men were stylish."
In American, more specifically, the first openly gay men that society accepted as public figures were fashion designers. More so than that, TV in the eighties and nineties created this stereotypical 'gay sidekick' who opted to giving sartorial advice to their less-than-stellar girlfriends. Fast forward a decade or two and series like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy emerged into the world, and along with it the Verdis and the Cojocarus.
And although I see no end in sight for the Stylish Gay Man myth, we now have gay public officials who are beyond sartorial help and other public figures who put fault in the myth entirely (note, the above picture). Only now we have a new myth to diffuse, that all stylish men are gay. Now that's a twist for your ass, and mine.
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Exclusive Report | No Jimmy Choo for H&M in DC

The Jimmy Choo for H&M collection has received world renown attention and grown into an over-advertised range, no doubt taking on a life of its own. Obtaining more press in only a few months time than H&M and Jimmy Choo have independently in a year, it has caused loads of lusting women and men to wait with much anticipation and impatience for its November 14 debut in select stores. So its understandable that I have a bit of a bone to pick with the retailer for what is a major slap in the face for the DC area. Heck, I have an enormous amount of rage built up and my only hope is that I can conjure it up to do something productive...like write a big fat writ of complaint to the 'folks upstairs' at H&M about the major blow.
While there are multiple H&M locations in the DC area, not one of them has been selected to initially carry the Jimmy Choo for H&M collection - and by initially, its worth noting that they don't give any foresight as to when the District will get its share of Jimmy Choo goods, or whether we will at all (SLAP!). I find this especially appalling considering we are a major city. Scratch that, we are the city; the nation's capital; the seat of the government; the representative of the United States to the rest of the world. So how exactly is it that you look at a map and decide to disregard shipping such an over-advertised and produced collection to the city with the big arrogant star on it? Baffles me.
But okay, Ill give them the benefit of the doubt that we don't deserve such special privileges just because we are the nation's capital (even though we do). They add insult to injury, however, when you factor in how successful H&M locations perform in this area. I may not have numbers, charts, graphs, or a contact for the Chief Financial Officer of Hennes & Mauritz, but what I do have is common sense. And common sense says that H&M obviously does well in the DC area considering new locations keep popping up faster than you can pronounce Hennes & Mauritz. In fact, today a new H&M is opening in Lakeforest Mall (the first 100 shoppers will receive an H&M Access to Fashion Pass with random values of $10, $25, $50, $75, or $100) - add that to the Georgetown and Metro Center locations in DC, and countless stores in the nearby suburbs. Don't give us more stores if we can't reap the full benefits! Not only is it an "F-You" to all your loyal costumers (of which I am one of them), but it also is a horrible business-policy that will only result in a major financial-miss. In the words of Miranda Priestly, "Its just baffling to me..."
And my intent for this post isn't to start a full-on boycott of H&M locations in DC because I will continue to shop at H&M, with anger in my heart all the while. Its really just to vent.
But let me end by saying this...while First Lady Michelle Obama is filling the White House with pieces from J. Crew and Talbots for the entire First Family to wear to White House events, H&M can forget their probable-hopes of getting her 'money maker' right to bear arms in any of their garments (because anything those arms are spotted in instantly flies off the shelves and make money) since DC area H&M's get the short end of the stick.
So how will you cope with being overly-teased for no reason? Me, Ill cope by having unhealthy, copious amounts of sex with stranger. But that's just me...I'd advise you to have lovely lustful dreams of what could have been.

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