As a writer, I love history. It is amazing to hear how different things were and to be reminded how much we take for granted. I respect his openness and the courage it takes to speak about a lifestyle to which many people are still so opposed. Love, Heath & Happiness to all who read this-- whether or not we agree on POVs.💝💫☺

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It's quite something that some reviewers leave remarks like, "Ew gross THATS why sodomy was illegal, no wonder," without taking a moment for the weight of the obvious to fall squarely on top of their delicate cranium - queer men such as the subject of this piece took measures to secretly and anonymously engage in sexual activity precisely BECAUSE sodomy was illegal.



The subjects recounting of the behavior of some people of a certain group in one place at a particular point in time does not represent the group broadly, however even if it were perfectly representative the behavior makes absolute sense in the violently oppressive context of the time.



It is also remarkable that an individual would go out of their way to spread tired and frankly ineffective conservative rhetoric for no reason at all, namely the "reviewer" who gos on about those preaching tolerance being the least tolerant among us. Repeating that sentence over and over does not make it true, but there is no longer any socially acceptable argument to justify bigoted behavior related to certain groups of people like homosexual men, and so we are left listening to the overplayed death rattle that sounds something like, "How dare you not tolerate me not tolerating you, THAT isn't tolerant now is it! Hah!"



Four stars for the insight provided by this interview with an elder queer from a generation passed by, though it should be remembered to be taken as only one man's story and not a definitive history, then five stars for the raspy dying gasps of the "moral majority" and its hypocritical rule by bigotry. What snowflakes, that lot.

- May 18, 2019Insightful and Important for Young LGBTQIA