bitful

According to a recent survey carried out by Gay Times and Diva magazines, homosexuals in Britain have higher salaries than their straight counterparts

Or, as some news editors across the globe put it:

• It helps to be gay if you want more pay
• More pay if gay in the UK

[...] gay men in the U.K. earn an average of $60,998 per year, compared with the general male population, which pulls in $44,232. [...] And British lesbians earned an average $10,700 more than the national average for women

(Source: Study: U.K. gay men make more than their straight counterparts | advocate.com)

It is hardly surprising then that, out of the lesbian and gay section of the thirty-odd people I invited to share a few drinks on my upcoming birthday,

• A. will be in South Africa;
• G.¹ is going to Brazil and other places in Latin America;
• T. will be in his second home in Brighton;
• R. is spending a month in Berlin;
• P. is in Dublin for the weekend;
• J. will be in Venezuela;
• S. & K. are going to be in London – visiting from the US;
• and G.¹ will probably come over from Paris – he hops on the Eurostar to London at least once a month anyway, because the clubs are better here.

I am grateful my birthday does not fall in early March – they'd all be in Sydney.

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