Androgyny

"This is a special event for girls only. You may enter but you may NOT speak to any of the girls inside", says the door bitch to my male but obviously queen friend.

We look at each other. We look at her. She doesn't look like she is kidding. She snapped her fingers off the black suspenders holding up her skinny-ass and hurried us along inside.

Inside the club, the atsmosphere is chaotic. There must be at least a couple hundred girls in here in all shapes, sizes and style. Everyone is cheering at something happening on stage where a Queen Latifah-like drag queen was "tormenting" a macho-looking girl by making her (him?) dirtydance with him (her?).

Ok basically, gender terming is not an issue here.

I manage to squeeze my way to the front row. The competition is in full force now with everyone yelling out their support for the adrogenous contestants who, I must say, looks amazingly good. Most of them are lean, suave, charming - a good mix of yin and yang. Each have to 'perform' to a sappy song with Le Drag Queen and answer a random intimate question. Spectator's votes determines the winner.

My general understanding of "androgeny" is that it refers to being neither here nor there gender-wise. A person who lacks rigid gender determination would fall into this category regardless whether born male or female. Examples of famous androgynes are Boy George, Annie Lenox, Grace Jones and Marilyn Manson etc.

But being an adrogyne does not necessarily mean one is always homosexual because adrogynes do not identify as male or female to begin with. However in the lesbian circle, those who don't define themselves as butch or femme would fall into this "andro" category.

Every human has both male and female hormones in varying quantity - which accounts for our gender identification. My very uneducated guess is that adrogynes probably have a good balanced mix of both. Being gender neutral actually doesn't sound so bad. Think about it, if you are able to extract and combine the traits from each of the two gender groups - wouldn't that make adrogynes perfect beings?

A man with enhanced sensibilities?

Or a undramatic stoic woman?

It was a very interesting experience. Had I not suddenly developed a strange case of alcohol intoxication whereby I collapsed (embaressingly!) mid-way, I would have definitely stayed on for the results :(

You'll free your mind in adrogeny - Garbage