Originally Posted by DGenBen View Post
Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
Let me turn this back to blackjack and casino play for my final thought of the night on being gay.

A couple years after I moved to Vegas, when I was still exploring "acts" and stuff, I communicated regularly with a blackjack player that used a gay act at the tables. He was sure it bought him extra leeway, as most casinos and pit didn't want to be seen as 86ing someone because they were gay. Especially with other patrons at the table.

This was a guy that I had incorporated some other things he shared and did into my own play. I think I tried this "act" once, but VERY quickly decided it was not for me. Playing mostly one location as I did at the time and still do, and seeing some people regularly, anything like this that makes you memorable is the last thing I want to do. Almost everything I do is designed to make myself as least memorable as possible. So I back burnered this idea and never went back to it.

It might be something you could explore on an out of town trip, but I wouldn't recomment this to anyone that plays some place regularly.
Like so many other things I think it all comes down to execution.

For example if there was a drag queen convention in town, that’s when a person could plausibly play in a full costume & be memorable but not necessarily burn themselves from returning to the casino later in normal street clothes.

I did a little version of this, also in the early years after I moved here. Not with Drag queens or gay related, but cowboy related. In Vegas we have the rodeo finals each December for a week and a half that draws a lot of cowboys and pretend cowboys. Not sure if we still have this but for many years we also has Cowboy Christmas in July or something like that which was a convention that sold a lot of cowboy stuff and drew the cowboy crowd.

So one year I bought myself a cowboy hat and a flannels shit. Didn't go as far as boot. And I would wear that outfit both in July and December. It was actually a dealer at a local casino that said something to me, like "I have seen you play a number of times throughout the year so I know you are not in town for the rodeo" as we both laughed.

That is when I went back to my number 1 rule: Dont do anything that makes you more memorable.