The title kind of says it all.

I am in NYC for the weekend, and while waiting for the arrival of a friend I sat down on a convenient pair of benches in SoHo (here featured by our own Steve Frost). Apparently TimeOut magazine has deemed these benches as one of the gay hipster hot spots for the year. My being there, however, was a complete accident – I can only hope some of that big appley hipster-ish-ness rubbed off.

That said, these benches are in front of an American Apparel. Go figure. This last semester amid queer theory and authors including Butler and Halberstam, we began saying “Even queers aren’t queer anymore.”

I kind of thought that hipsters might have become the new queers. Maybe that’s only true if you are straight.