Trevor Craig

They realized I was a lot of fun, and they realized that a lot of gay people go out to eat.

And if you put a gay guy with a gay group of people, I can make some serious money.

And I'm pretty damn adorable, so if you put me with a bachelorette party, they also want to tip me a lot, and they will take a ton of sake bombs if I tell them to.

So they started using my gayness as an advantage for the company, and I started getting very strategically put with tables, and I would very strategically walk out with $300 or $400 in tips every night.

I was making some serious cash.

But it came with some drawbacks.

Of course, I over-served people, so I would get in trouble for that.

I had to fight with people who were a little bit slow.

I had one of the chefs who would get really aggressive with me because one night he said I was walking to tables with limp wrists.

And I said, yeah, you're right.

Accurate.

And he eventually got over it and I made him practice his limp wrist.

Iowa was one of the first states to legalize gay marriage, and I was in school right now, and so I had a lot of free time to go to a lot of protests and a lot of things at the courthouse.

So there's a lot of pictures of me when they legalized gay marriage with signs, with all my friends, and it went all over newspapers, it was all over my university's website, and it was all over my Facebook.

And one of the first things I put on my Facebook is, gay marriage is legal in Iowa, currently taking applications.

The next Saturday when I got to work, all the chefs had filled out applications for me.

And it was really, really sweet.

And slowly but surely, all of the chefs became kind of allies.

And this is a bunch of guys who, again, not Asian, working at a Japanese steakhouse.

It was very questionable.