Rose hops in the car clapping out a driving beat and singing "We will, we will, rock you!" So I start singing along adding a verse and the companion song, We Are the Champions. She cannot believe what's going on. How do I know that song? Because it was hot when I was in sixth grade. I distinctly remember sitting in my desk between Adam and Gordon, rocking out to the beat.

I still don't think she believed me because her eyes nearly popped out of her head when I got home and started playing a youtube version on the computer. Then the questions started: Why does their hair look so funny? Are they wearing wigs? Um, it was the seventies ok, we all looked funny.

Then I put up a version from the eighties and couldn't believe my eyes. How could I have been so oblivious to how gay they were? I mean you call your band Queen, it's not like your trying to hide in the closet. But in this show, they've got every gay sign I've ever seen: the white singlet, the handlebar mustache, the studded bracelet, the big belt. I forget I didn't learn my gaydar until the late eighties when I lived in a gay household. I wonder what subtext to the lyrics I'm also missing. Ah well, the song still rocks.