Fitting into stereotypes has never really been my thing. Especially when it comes to my identity as a man. While I'm gay, I can fix cars, build houses, cook, clean, and decorate a mean birthday cake. I don't dress in the latest fashions, I don't have the flashiests of cars, I'm more at home on my ranch (well used to be mine) than I am in a city. I'm from the south yet I'm educated and street wise. I was in the military yet I'm more of a peace activist, all the while supporting my brothers and sisters in arms for the job they do to keep us as safe as they can.
I think we all are very much like the old sunday comics. From afar we look pretty normal, but up close we're just a bunch of dots making a bigger, more complete, complicated picture.
It's been said already on here but I'll paraphrase from Popeye "I yams what I yams and I can't be no mores".