Overcoming Inertia

Birmingham, England, Sunday June 21, 1998
At midnight last night, Gina finally climbed onto the restaurant table and started dancing. "I'm really a party girl she said, and I live for this," she said.

Now, by day Gina is a respected UK journalist, editor of a local weekly paper and associate editor for one of the UK tabloids often noted for its scoops about 'odd' goings-on. We had arrived at the restaurant in Manchester's gay village some three hours earlier, in all, 7 TGs and 3 GGs. Included in the party were 6'-3" Jay, who has a prediliction for pipe-smoking however she is dressed, and who spends the rest of her time chatting up any young (GG) girls within talking distance. She usually returns from the ladies bathroom, happily announcing she has 'pulled' again! I also noticed her speaking to a young GG who was wearing a low-cut top, and Jay had positioned herself so that the girl had to lean forward to Jay to hear her, and Jay was having a feast for her eyes as she did so!!

Earlier in the evening, Gina kept expressing concern that she might be spotted by someone she knew in her male role, then consoled herself with the thoughts that; (a) they shouldn't be here anyway unless they were not straight, and; (b) She looked completely different en DRAB, and would not be recognized unless she spoke.

However, as the evening wore on and the wine consumption increased, she confided that she felt a much better person in her female role, and that she was becoming more relaxed. It was clear that her fears were dissolving in the alcohol. It was about 11 PM that the Jekyll and Hyde change came over her and she started to sway to the music in her seat. Later, she began complaining that too many people had left and it would only be a small audience to see her dance. This was a complete change from the worried Gina of only two hours earlier. When the waiters finally cleared the table and one of them started dancing, she was off her butt, onto her chair and jumped onto the table in no time, dancing like the 54 year-old teenager she is, out in public for the first time!

It just shows that Brits are not always as quiet and reserved as other nations think!