If you want it to be wild and trashy and sexy, it can be. It’s all gay men out in the woods and it’s as wild or as mild as you want it to be. That’s at Lake Murray, and that’s been going on since 1969. “The history of gay people in this town-it just goes on and on and on. “Randy, I’ve got stories you wouldn’t believe,” he told me. LISTEN: Abby Wendle sits down with Micah Fitzerman-Blue, one of the minds behind Felt, a television show that re-enacts real audio recordings of couples’ sex therapy sessions, with puppets. The moment I sat down, Floyd was all business. In the same way a planet will attract smaller rocks as its moons by the sheer gravity of its presence, Floyd too holds court, not by any pronounced effort, but by default-if Floyd Martin is in the room or sitting beside the pool, all eyes and ears are drawn to him. The party went on, revolving around us, our conversation interrupted by introductions, a beer thrust into my hand, appraisals of men’s torsos, greetings to newcomers, and toasts hailing the first unofficial day of summer.įloyd Martin, a large man, has a presence far greater than his girth. Floyd, out of breath, motioned me to the deck chair beside him. I met Floyd recently at Oklahoma City’s Habana Inn on a Saturday afternoon, just minutes after 30 gay men paraded around the pool in hats bedecked with plastic flowers, tassels, and shiny pink ribbons.