If they weren't gay, they'd live in Womanhattan

Think, Mark. Think!

I (M) had a friend (also M) who I shared a storage space with one summer while we went abroad during graduate school and neither of us was gay. While we were waiting in the storage facility's office, my friend noticed some copies of Self-Storage Monthly magazine lying around, a trade magazine aimed at people who owned or managed self-storage facilities. The articles were mostly about how to keep bands from having rehearsals in their units (nothing about preventing people from living in the units, which we thought was a bit of an oversight given how many people I've known who have done that).

My buddy stole three copies and when he got home he peeled off the original mailing labels and replaced them with labels addressed to him from other magazines that he subscribed to, and left them out on his coffee table. It was always amusing watching people pick them up, thumb through them, and then say "Peter, why the fuck do you subscribe to Self-Storage Monthly?"

What says they are gay?

They enjoy musicals. Dead giveaway.

That's life for me in the south (USA). Some people are willfully ignorant and yet also so unintentionally naive.

Unfortunately it's not really safe for my partner and I to be totally 100% out to everybody in all situations all the time. So, if we don't know you well or we know you well enough to know you're personally running the rumor mill because you're a nosy little bitch named Penny, then you haven't earned the right to know our truth.

So, if you ask if we're friends or roommates or if he's your son or any of a million other options besides are you two in a relationship, then the answer is going to be yes, sure, kind of, whatever.

Hey, heterosexual life mates are a thing.

Can’t two dudes can’t enjoy musicals and a storage room without you folks immediately jumping to “they’re sucking each other off”

This is very funny to me because I have an actual roommate I've been considering getting a storage space with, and we do love musicals...

Bro, can I park my car in your garage?

I mean, when you think about musicals, storage solutions are the next logical step.

Maybe they're two models who don't even know each other and the blurb was written by an ad agency hack.

There's always a 40 year old white guy whose still trying to learn how to smile.

So they like being in the closet? Weird, letting the whole world know.

Peter, explain why they value a storage room, but would prefer to use it for musicals? Are they wanting to use it as a space to practice stagecraft or a TV room for watching them?