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So relatable. Maupin’s early recognitions of his homosexuality: “I knew I was mentally ill. I had read it somewhere in a magazine. I took my cues from Dear Abby, who had recently told her readers that parents should be concerned if their 16 old child had never kissed a member of the opposite sex. I decided that one way to thwart my inevitable shame would be to become paralyzed from the waist down.”
— Jan 28, 2025 10:59AM
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Siarl
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“I remember looking around the table and realizing that six different decades of gay men were represented in our group. . .
I remember thinking at that moment: This is how it should be. This is how the camaradarie of queers can span generations, offering solace between young and old, bonding us through friendship and sex and art. And not just among the living.”
— Feb 03, 2025 11:58PM
I remember thinking at that moment: This is how it should be. This is how the camaradarie of queers can span generations, offering solace between young and old, bonding us through friendship and sex and art. And not just among the living.”
Siarl
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“As I drove to the base with the top down on my sunbeam alpine, I felt like a freshly minted human being. I had finally held another man’s naked body against mine and the world had not come to an end. Yes, I had passed the point of no return, but it was not at all what I’d imagined, not the death of innocence, but the birth of a giddy, wide-eyed adolescence.”Maupin recounts losing his virginity, at age 25.
— Jan 29, 2025 10:28PM
