A gay dancer came into the wings and walked over to a straight dancer who was watching the show, and started deeply kneading his arm–or nudged his foot, or put his arm around him–I’m remembering different things you’d see.
Was he harassing? No, they were on the same roster rank.
Was he making a pass? Or initiating some unfinished business? Or just being affectionate? Or just being a ballet dancer?
Whatever he was doing, in the banking world, let’s say, it would have meant something entirely different.
And now that I’m thinking back there was actually some long ago incident of gay in the largely-straight dancer–that’s the ballet world, too: it’s polymorphous.