A few weeks ago, over a mostly liquidSunday brunch of Bloody Mary's and Mimosa's, a friend of mine leaned acrossthe table and exclaimed, You so wish you were a gay man. The comment,while a little out of the blue, was not entirely off target.

There are plenty of straight women,who, like me, harbor some version of the same fantasy. With the current mediafrenzy over gay culture presenti...