The Easter Bunny brought lots of naughty treats to everyone's baskets. As we pick up our story...

• Greg becomes more depressed (4/4/96) but once Steve dumps him (4/8/96), Greg does the unthinkable and takes a bottle of sleeping pills (4/10/ 96). Fortunately, Mike finds Greg in time (4/12/96) and helps him to the hospital. Greg's father makes him begin a special "therapy" for Greg to understand his "choice" of homosexuality (4/18/96) and eventually Greg moves into a new home (4/22/96), quits his job (4/26/96), and begins painting again when he meets a woman (4/28/96). This forces him to make an announcement to Drew that he's going to become celibate .

• Drew and Eric go to The White Party in Palm Springs and get more than they bargain for with the 7000 men (yep, you read it correctly) and steamy Mark Fitzgerald (4/6/96 and (4/6/96). Eric battles his guilt of infidelity and almost gets caught by Drew (4/7/96), but that's nothing when he realizes hiding in the closet at work can be worse.

• The stalker notes reappear (4/9/96 and (4/11/96) and Drew sees the suspected stalker (4/13/96) at his new job. Karma comes round to Eric however when Drew catches him in the Mocha Daze bathroom having sex with Mark Fitzgerald (4/17/96 and (4/17/96). The fallout is tragic (4/19/96) and (4/19/96) and Drew has sexual revenge with a one night stand (4/25/96), but soon realizes that maybe Mark Fitzgerald is the stalker (4/29/9 6).

• Mike gets his name cleared in the drug sting (4/2/96) and, anxious to start his new life, auditions for a dance company but doesn't score (4/6/96); however he soon finds roman ce with a mysterious woman .(4/8/96) until we discover the woman is not all that she seems (4/18/96). Mike dumps her (4/22/96) and begins tea ching dance to kids (4/26/96) and remembers his difficult past (4/30/96).

• Meanwhile, Hugo nurses the injured Detective Kurt back to health (4/1/96) while Steve makes a financially desperate Hugo a business offer he cannot refuse (4/3/96 and (4/7/96). Hugo's column, Now You Tell Me! hilariously describes what a "friend" is (4/11/96) while his romance with Kurt intensifies (4/13/96) and 4/15/96). Steve gets ugly at Mocha Daze (4/19/96) as Hugo soon learns more nastiness about Steve from his journal (4/23/96). But the straw that breaks Hugo's back is when the REAL owner of Mocha Daze arrives (4/27/96) and 4/29/96).

  Fran discovers one of her work sketches has been stolen (4/4/96) and accuses her boss (4/8/96). Thea calms her down (4/10/96) but Fran learns Thea doesn't work for just one company and is in fact a spy (4/20/96). Fran plots revenge against her boss and with Thea's wishes, plans her crime (4/22/96).

  Our characters jump into the lusty month of May with heterosexual yearnings, artistic fulfillment and heartbreak, and the ever changing scenarios of living life through a Gay Daze.

  
  

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