Smartphones Turning Gays As Boring As Straights

“I was sitting around in gay bars, and when I’m writing there, I’m usually writing about what’s happening around me, even though I don’t seem to realize that at the time. What has increasingly been happening is that people in the gay bars are just staring at their glowing gadgets and literally never looking up except to order another drink. So they may as well not be there at all.”
 — Awl pal Matthew Perpetua talks to Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt.