Arouse is arouse is arouse

It just occurred to me that this has been my gayest week ever on Left Behinds. Gay Pride must have hit me like a bad case of gonorrhea: with a two-week incubation period.

Anyhow, the title is from the name of a party that some friends of mine are throwing in a lower east side queer squat this weekend, as "a paean to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas." In the invitation was this Gertrude Stein quote, which I thought was rather funny.

They were in a way both gay there where there were many cultivating something. They were both regular in being gay there. Helen Furr was gay there, she was gayer and gayer there and really she was just gay there, she was gayer and gayer and gayer there, that is to say she found ways of being gay there that she was using in being gay there. She was gay there, not gayer and gayer, just there, that is to say she was not gayer by using the things she found there that were gay things, she was gay there, always she was gay there.

They were quite reguarly gay there, Helen Furr and Georgine Skeene, they were regularly gay there where they were gay. They were very regularly gay.

To be regulaly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.