Mother Nature

I'll be writing about this for a while so all what 3 of you that read this bare with me.
I just got back from Rio de Janeiro (thank you Logo and MTV) and I was really struck by the beauty of the place. The natural beauty of the ocean, mountains vegetation and of course the people. They are the sexist bunch of folks I have seen ever. It was kind of scary.
Young, thin, fat, man, woman, black white, just dripped sex. My travel companion, Javier said at one point when we were at the gay beach, watching the sunset, on a cloudless Sunday, surrounded by men, in speedo's "how do the keep there hands off each other?" Good question.
Another thing that struck me was that in a different place I would have hated being there. I'm sure that on any given weekend in the summer you can go to fire island, and see a similar "tee dance". What I think made Rio Different was that these guys and gals live this year round. They are "work-a-day" people that whenever they get a chance go to the beach, drink AND smoke, they are not in a gay ghetto, there are people with families there, there are vendors, inbetween walking the beach selling everything from suntan lotion, to shots of Jonny Walker and Red Bull stop to dance, hang out and everybody kind of stopped what they were doing to watch the sunset, and applaud as the sun went down under the horizon.
I know a big part of it was the language thing, and I could understand what was being said around me but I know that these were just a normal bunch of people, not uber fags from Chelsea, Boystown in Chicago, or Palm Springs, that live this relaxed lifestyle even for a day a two a week, and most importantly, remember that a sunset, something that happens everyday, should be appreciated, even if you see it all the time.