[Miss Marple]

All the best decorating is done by gay men. It has always been that way, it's just that they just used to show the houses in the magazines and never mentioned who owned them.

I used to work in an up-scale furniture store, and the best designers with the biggest clientele were all the gay guys. Same with store display at department stores. I don't know why this appears to be so...whether it is because they are actually better or because it is an area in which they can advance without social disapproval.

But it seems to me to be so. I don't care as long as they don't act really blatant on camera, which is apparently what happened in the show John was watching.

[Holding Our Breath]

That's the way I am Janey. When I worked retail all of the people in the "creative" desplays departments were gay or lesbian (why do we not categorize them in the same group?)they were very talented people and I was fine as long as they "behaved" themselves when talking to me. But, of course, I was the sameway with my hetero friends and their public displays of affection!

[Utah Girl]

I didn't realize that until I saw those three shows on HGTV in a row. Light clicks on in my head. :) And I too don't really care, unless their lifestyle is blatantly in my face. But it does seem that the whole gay/lesbian/alternative lifestyle community has become much more militant about demanding that we acknowledge their lifestyles and approve of them. A whole can of psychological worms, and one issue I won't tangle this thread with...

[gulfcoast6]

My wifes hairdresser was gay, a flaming gay at that. One day I took her to the hairdresser and he, er, she, shim, was crying like a baby, his whatever broke up with him, sheesh, tinkerbells, the lot of them.