Impressions under the rainbow

So, last night, we had one of Jen's friend over for dinner and she is lesbian. I am quite used to that, since Jen and I lived with a lesbian when we were in Boston, so it is not a big deal. She is south african ( by the way, not all southafricans are black.. actually she is really really white !) and she broke up with her italian girlfriend. The reason i say this is just that she is having problem to hook up with other girls. Apparently italian girls are quite tough to hook up with. It is interesting because also another friend (straight and foreigner) of mine told me the same thing. From my experience, for what that is worth, it is true. We are used in Italy to play a lot more, men and women alike. Generally, mind games have to be part of your repertoire whereas, in the US, for instance, things are much more clear. If girls are interested they are straightforward, if they are not, they'll cut you off. In any case, i felt strange, when she asked me how to behave with women ! It is strange to say to a woman how to behave with women....I mean she is also quite cute and feminine, not the "butcher" kind of lesbian and it is interesting the feeling of the fact that she cannot have any interest in you. In any case, after dinner we went to the Gay Village, which is some gay event going on right now in Rome. So I and Jen had to gay up our looks, otherwise we would have had problems to get in. So I wore a tight T-shirt and some tight jeans, put some more gel on my hair, so i thought i was ready (although according to this friend not enough, which i still have to understand whether it is a compliment or not..). Still I felt quite ridiculous, since the T-shirt was actually Tshirt underwear. In any case, I put on my best gay behavior and get to the entrance. I was in front and let the girls stay behind me. No problem. I get in easily. So either i looked gay enough or they just had pity of me and let me in. Once in, i was quite surprised, there were no extreme kind of people, i mean those that you usually see on the gay parade. It was actually quite mixed, there were hetero and gay couples and I liked the atmosphere. There was nothing like a gay pride thing, nothing dirty, nothing you would not find in any normal hetero disco, nothing overboard. Jen and I really had a good time. I am hoping there are just more things like this and maybe everything gets normalized, as it should be.