Friday, August 28, 2009

Tranny Vocab Lesson 4: Power Gay

Attention, kiddies - it's time to put on your thinking caps because Tranny Vocab is about to resume. In this series, The Tranny Times explores the varied and wonderful lexicon of Williamsburg trannies. Today's lesson is Power Gay.

Power Gay: [pou-er gey] noun: a best of breed homosexual. Homosexual men who have attained a high level of notoriety and influence within a particular sphere through their own efforts, accident of birth, or a combination of the two.

Power Gays are prominent gay men widely known as a result of their professional accomplishments or fruitful attempts at social success. Power Gays are easily identified by their well maintained anatomy, immaculately groomed visage and precisely edited wardrobe. Power Gays inhabit the West Village, Tribeca and Chelsea and spend time in Provence Town, Los Angeles, Bar Harbor, Palm Beach, Mykonos, London and the Hamptons. Power Gaydom caps out when said Power Gay begins to look more than 50 years old, at which point he transitions into Older Gay.


Examples of New York Power Gays: half of design team Proenza Schouler Lazaro Hernandez, Daniel Benedict and Andrew Saffir of the Tribeca Film Festival, New York Magazine's Chris Rovzar, Peter Davis editor at large for Paper, Peter Bacanovic Martha Stewart's old stockbroker now CEO of Fred Leighton, potter/designer and partner to Simon Doonan's, Jonathan Adler

3 comments:

  1. what about those conde nast queens and their club? power gay wannabees?

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  2. P.G.s in training. You HAVE to make the masthead!

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  3. Do the W-burg plastics count as Billyburg's version of P.G.s?

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