There's no place like home

I leave for my small home town in a couple days to spend some time with my family and hopefully be present when my neice is born.  (Oh how I wish that births were a scheduled event, it would make planning to be there for one so much easier.)  I'm super excited to see my family and to meet my niece, but it's never really a whole ton of fun to talk with my family.  It's like walking on eggshells, I can't be as open with them as I am with others about my living arrangement with a gay man.  My family loves me and they respect Leo, but they don't understand how we can be so close and not be "together".  It's not uncommon for someone in my family to ask if Leo is "still gay".  It's exhausting to constantly have to be aware of what I'm saying so that I don't make my family uncomfortable.  I as much as I love to be outspoken and proud, I behave myself because I don't get to see my family very often and I would much rather spend that time smiling and laughing than defending my life.

While I'm in Minnesota I'm going to spend the last few days of my trip in Minneapolis, I'll be able to see a bunch of my friends including my favorite gays.  It's going to be just like the old days...a stop at The 19 for a pitcher of beer and then off to The Saloon where I used to be famous.  (OK, maybe not famous, but people know me.)  I will try and take pictures to include on my next post.

I just started a Twitter account to accompany my blog, check it out to see what kind of shenanigans I get into on a daily basis.

http://twitter.com/#!/fruitflychye