Everyone’s talking about the big gay event of the year. Every summer nabueños waits for the town fiesta. It is indeed a big event in itself in a rural town like Nabua. And the Gay function is one of the best events to look forward to. Usually it is just the yearly Miss Gay Alinsangan pageant that happens a few days before the fiesta, but this year the Gay community of Nabua organized a social gathering that will surely be fun and pure entertainment to most downtown people. From what I’ve been told by close gay people in town, the event which is the Gay Cotillion, started out as an idea that suddenly surfaced in an ordinary conversation among gay transvestites. Nabua has a monotonous way of life if I may say and only every summer time the town gets the flavor of its history and culture, as well as incorporating the accumulation of various way of life. That said event will be a way to break the monotony of a ghost town. Since Nabua has the most number of gay people back in the days, I believe this Gay Cotillion is a fine way to honor and pay tribute to the elderly or senior gay individuals. Yes, that’s a hint.

Cotillion is a common form of dance in social gatherings and balls, like debuts. Debutantes are young ladies’ first social engagements in its formal sense however in this case it’s not a debut but a Ball showcasing the senior gay people that more or less made a significant contribution to a boring town, not to mention their contribution in the local industry. So, yes, two big gay events for the year: the yearly Miss Gay Alinsangan (which, more often than not, is lucid event of laughter and mockery but also an exceptional way to entertain people), that will be held on Thursday, April 27, 2006 (tomorrow) and the Gay Cotillion on Friday, April 28, 2006.

I was invited to the Gay Cotillion by my friend Peter. Since most of them who organized the cotillion are people I know they extended their invitations as well only that I will be on Peter’s official list because he’s my closest. It’s a limited function but for everyone to see. I will take pictures of this first formal gay gathering in town and surely it will be the funniest. It will be funny because I am talking about gay people who have been in the “service” for years. I believe the eldest who will wear a ball gown is in his 40’s!