Lesbians are to folk music as...

ducks are to water.

It's just true and I was reminded of it all over again last night as a lovely woman leaned over to me laughing and said into my ear " oh you know, it wouldn't be one of "those" parties if we didn't get out the guitar. And then there was a round of singing.

Actually tho, the host sang very beautifully and the lovely woman sat down and sang harmony and for a moment it was so different from anything I had ever really been to. Everyone was sitting around, listening and giving each other laughing smiles and some were singing along. The songs were harmonic versions of men's songs...so it was strange to hear these words sung by two women and then a crowd of women start hollaring out the chorus.

I met many, many women last night and had a long moment with one in the form of across the room stares. She was truly lovely and unusual and of course I said and did nothing except nervously clutch my Red Stripe and chat with my roomi J. and of course everyone thought we were a couple because roomi J said things like " well we are looking to move into a house that is in Edgewater, we really like that neighborhood" or "oh an event in DC...Keziah you can skip work right? Just give her the flyer we'll go!" My entire night was in the form of WE and to me it was entirely funny that she was so unaware of the rampant assumptions going on around her.