he was butch with a capital `` b '' and he dressed like freddie mercury ( white wife beater tank top , super-tight jeans , black motorcycle boots and studded black belts ) when he was n't dressed in scrubs ( he was a nurse on the neurosciences ward at swedish medical center ) or dressed to go out with us to fancy dinners and the cruise room ( buddy looked good in his queen front man getup but you did n't wear a wife beater to the cruise room , no way ) .