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		<title>Thoughts on being &#8220;Outdoorsy Metro&#8221;</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Hey, are you gay?&#8221; A question that I&#8217;ve fielded several times&#8230; though I have to say upfront that it doesn&#8217;t really bother me to be asked this one. Partly because I&#8217;m extremely comfortable with my sexuality. I&#8217;ve been told that I&#8217;m a slight bit &#8220;metro-boy&#8221; at times. Maybe just a bit for Jacksonville&#8217;s standards. I [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Hey, are you gay?&#8221;</p>
<div id="attachment_557" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://www.chrisvonada.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/columbia-shoes.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-557" class="size-medium wp-image-557" title="columbia shoes" src="http://www.chrisvonada.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/columbia-shoes-300x212.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="212" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-557" class="wp-caption-text">I could see me in a pair of these!</p></div>
<p>A question that I&#8217;ve fielded several times&#8230; though I have to say upfront that it doesn&#8217;t really bother me to be asked this one. Partly because I&#8217;m extremely comfortable with my sexuality. I&#8217;ve been told that I&#8217;m a slight bit &#8220;metro-boy&#8221; at times. Maybe just a bit for Jacksonville&#8217;s standards.</p>
<p>I would describe my personal style as &#8220;outdoorsy metro.&#8221;</p>
<p>That would be:</p>
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<li>I care about my appearance, but I could be seen in the grocery store with messed up hair after a really excellent nap.</li>
<li>I have a thing for shoes.</li>
<li>The haircut&#8230; pretty short now but with a little bit of length on top (not spiked though, as I don&#8217;t care for cement in my doo, and my daughter cuts it &#8211; not a stylist).</li>
<li>oh, yes the <del>clothing</del>Â  garb&#8230; if you can find a label it&#8217;s usually Timberland, Woolrich or some other earth-boy label.</li>
<li>Exfoliation &#8211; yep, I&#8217;ve participated in it.</li>
<li>I dig art, classical music, and (eeeks!!) some fashion.</li>
<li>and, of course, I know my way around the kitchen.</li>
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<p>So being Outdoorsy Metro can be ok, right? I mean, &#8220;James Bond is very metro in a lot of ways. He ain&#8217;t no sissy but he has excellent taste.&#8221; That&#8217;s how he&#8217;s described in the Urban Dictionary anyway.</p>
<p>And so it is well with my soul&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;on to the gay people in my life&#8230;</p>
<p>I have several friends who are gay. I can hang out with them on occasion? I mean, we really are all homo&#8217;s. Homo-sapiens, to be taxonomically correct. And we&#8217;re all loved by the same God I do believe&#8230; so since I&#8217;m completely comfortable with my own sexuality why would I treat these people any different from all the rest? Hmmm, I&#8217;m struggling with this one&#8230;</p>
<p>Do you have any gay people in your life?</p>
<p>Would you feel comfortable meeting them at a Starbucks?</p>
<p>Would you invite them to your Church?</p>
<p>Would they feel welcome there?</p>
<p>btw, the answer is no, I&#8217;m not gay&#8230; or even bi, just plain oleÂ  non-judgmentalÂ straight&#8230;</p><p>The post <a href="https://chrisvonada.com/thoughts-on-being-outdoorsy-metro/">Thoughts on being “Outdoorsy Metro”</a> first appeared on <a href="https://chrisvonada.com">I'm Just Thinkin'</a>.</p><p>The post <a href="https://chrisvonada.com/thoughts-on-being-outdoorsy-metro/">Thoughts on being &#8220;Outdoorsy Metro&#8221;</a> appeared first on <a href="https://chrisvonada.com">I&#039;m Just Thinkin&#039;</a>.</p>
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