I was in Denver doing a play during the stock show in 2007. In one of the weirder situations I've ever been in in my life, a bunch of us, male and female, went to a big strip club for "research." The cast of the play was almost entirely Arab, Jewish, or black, and a lot of the crew were gay, and there we were in a room full of strippers and cowboys. My friend Daoud, who is Palestinian, looked around and said, "I don't know how long I can stay here." This one pleasant-looking cowboy sitting near us said, "I can't believe you guys brought your girlfriends here." We tried to explain to him that they weren't our girlfriends, we were all doing a play, and he said, "I can't believe you guys brought your girlfriends here." Also, it didn't help that we were very high.
