SON OF BOOK, COVER? "A survey of 4,193 men living in New York City conducted by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene found that nearly 10 percent of male participants who identified themselves as straight reported having sex with at least one man during the previous year," says this news release at Medical News Today, which also notes that 70% of the men in the "self-described as straight, but recently had gay sex" group reported being married.

The findings come from a study recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. I'm not sure what to make of this one study, but I'm sharing the info because I know that some readers are interested in the phenomenon of married men in New York who seem to be gay.

A previous Blog About Town post emphasized the idea that one can't always tell a book by its cover. That truism can go both ways...or even more than two ways. Just because a guy seems gay doesn't mean that the guy is actually gay. Just because a guy is married doesn't mean that the guy is straight. Just because a guy describes himself as straight doesn't mean he's straight. And so on and so forth, regardless of gender. Right?

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