{"id":6691,"date":"2009-01-25T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=6691"},"modified":"2014-12-02T06:38:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T13:38:03","slug":"i-prefer-vera-wang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6691\/i-prefer-vera-wang\/","title":{"rendered":"I Prefer Vera Wang"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not a gay man but I’d play one on television if I thought there was a Golden Globe<\/em> in it for me.\u00a0 In fact, my wife insists that her next husband will indeed, be<\/em> a gay man and I’m cool with that as long as I’m not still around to witness all the fabulous shopping thrown back\u00a0 in my face.\u00a0 And\u00a0 just so you know that this Op-Ed is not coming from a squinted biased eye, I’m hereby going on cyber-record to announce to the entire Blogosphere<\/a> that our bride’s maid was a male fashion designer, my best man was a lesbian, and we first encountered our bisexual ceremonial minister at a coffee shop in Boystown.\u00a0 If you don’t believe me,\u00a0 just ask our poor parents.\u00a0 And perhaps this is why a certain Jason Wu<\/em> recently ‘Requested’ my Friendship on Facebook.\u00a0 (The fact that I even know who the man is <\/em>serves as the premise for this piece.)<\/p>\n

And thus, without doth protesting too much, if you ever met me in person you’d clearly see that I’m not physically fit enough to be gay—or at least, not the sort of gay I’d prefer if druthers were in order. I do know a little bit about fashion, though, and I have to declare that I am totally pissed<\/em> that Michelle Obama did not wear Maria Pinto<\/em> at the Inauguration. There, it’s out. I said it.<\/p>\n

Allow me to digress.\u00a0 Maria Pinto is a well known Chicago based fashion designer who studied under Geoffrey Beene.\u00a0 She is the twin sister of my best friend and managing broker, Joe Pinto,\u00a0 and a personal friend and designer-of-choice of my wife, Mona. For the past 18 months,\u00a0 none other than the<\/em> Michelle Obama, has been\u00a0 frequenting\u00a0 the Pinto<\/em> showroom for complimentary couture <\/em>and thus, dangling the possibility of\u00a0 wearing Maria Pinto<\/em> for The Inauguration.\u00a0 There were nods and winks but I can say no more.\u00a0 And since ‘ The Dress ‘\u00a0 will ultimately hang in the Smithsonian alongside the likes of Jackie Kennedy and First Ladied others…well, needless to say…this was all a pretty big deal Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am not a gay man but I’d play one on television if I thought there was a Golden Globe in it for me.\u00a0 In fact, my wife insists that her next husband will indeed, be a gay man and I’m cool with that as long as I’m not still around to witness all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[528,500],"class_list":["post-6691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-estate","tag-chicago-real-estate","tag-geno-petro","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2316,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2316\/im-not-even-gay-yet-look-what-i-got\/","url_meta":{"origin":6691,"position":0},"title":"I’m Not Even Gay Yet and Look What I Got","author":"Russell Shaw","date":"December 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I received the following email from: real estate agent [gayagent@gayrealestatedirectory.com]. 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