In Saturday's L.A. Affairs
we learn that straights cruise at the gym too. Who'd have thought?We had never met, but we knew each other's bylines. I wrote for the Long Beach paper, she for a travel magazine. I suggested that I do a piece on Long Beach for her magazine and she, acting generously, said that was a good idea.In truth, I wanted to ask her out rather than write for her. But instead of getting her number, I allowed her to flee up t…