Re: Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)": Last Friday at about 2 a.m., just before last call, I was in a room full of the whole gay rainbow—bears and butches, drag queens and skinny club kids—and we all danced, and not only did we dance, but we knew every move, just like all of those dozens of fan videos on YouTube knew all the moves. Plus my sister and my mother love it, and for the first time in a while, this might be a genuinely universal single. Which is kind of worrisome, because no matter how fun it is to dance to (and it is incredibly, brilliantly entertaining to dance to), it seems to be so retrograde—sort of like Obama winning and Prop. 8 passing on the same night.

Anthony Easton
Ontario, Canada

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