title: Drama Queen: The Gay Man's Guide to an Uncomplicated Life
author:  Patrick Price 
description: As all gay men know, there's drama and then there's <i>drama</i>. Being genuinely torn between two lovers, for example, versus having slept your way through your entire zip code. Minor spats with your best friends versus a web of allegiances, grudges, and hearsay approaching Versailles in the era of Marie Antoinette. Or being a few days late with the rent versus your landlord asking Gucci and Prada to shut down your credit.
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  Sean
  
  One
  
  Sometimes there’s a thin line between cowardice and common sense. Sean had
  made the mistake often enough to recognize when he’d made it again.
  Recognizing it _before_ he made it would be nice but, it seemed, too much to
  ask for.
  
  He looked around the small, crowded bar. That the clientele was over ninety
  percent male was the only sign it catered to a specific clientele. A typically
  understated small city gay bar. Or so he’d heard. His only other visit to one
  had been in New York City where, drunk and in a rare rebellious mood he’d gone
  into one of the more popular gay bars . . . only to walk out again five
  minutes later.
  
  Common sense, he told himself. If you’re a Cabal prince who is desperately
  trying to hide his sexual orientation from his family, you don’t go to gay
  bars. Yet that little voice had always gnawed at him, telling him his decision
  wasn’t common sense but cowardice.
  
  “You look like you could use some company.”
  
  Sean looked up into 