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Something made me weep today [message #15943]

Sat, 04 October 2003 19:16

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I have just come home from installing my son in his room for his first term at university.

Prominent in the papers in his room, awaiting him like it awaited every fresham was a short note from the GLBT society, inviting him to an informal meeting. Orientation was not relevant. He was simply invited.

I had a sudden "If only that has existed when I was a student" moment. But that was in 1970, and then we had Gay Lib, so very different and militant to create todays semi-acceptance.

I am not going for one moment to doubt the hard road that today's teenagers have to follow. And I acknowledge freely that some free nations have very oppressive enclaves.

But, Oh to be a gay teen today instead of the 1960s. To feel at least half welcome..........

And I shed a silent sob.

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

		Something made me weep today By: timmy on Sat, 04 October 2003 19:16
		Huggs tight..... By: marc on Sat, 04 October 2003 20:18
		In our day this was normal. Sensitve souls: do not open ii By: timmy on Sat, 04 October 2003 21:05
		Now, if you have got thus far By: timmy on Sat, 04 October 2003 21:10
		Re: In our day this was normal. Sensitve souls: do not open ii By: marc on Sat, 04 October 2003 21:34
		Re: In our day this was normal. Sensitve souls: do not open ii By: marc on Sat, 04 October 2003 21:44
		What I think I am trying to say is By: timmy on Sun, 05 October 2003 11:58
		timmy...read Setras' post on that other thread... By: smith on Sun, 05 October 2003 12:16
		I like the post. and more By: timmy on Sun, 05 October 2003 14:05
		Re: What I think I am trying to say is By: robert bryce on Sun, 05 October 2003 12:33
		I am not forgetting them By: timmy on Sun, 05 October 2003 13:47
		Re: I am not forgetting them By: robert bryce on Sun, 05 October 2003 14:13
		Re: there is a medical movement to prevent gay birth By: robert bryce on Sun, 05 October 2003 14:31
		Eugenics By: timmy on Sun, 05 October 2003 16:19
		Re: Eugenics By: robert bryce on Sun, 05 October 2003 20:34
		I just have to ask ..... By: kevin on Sun, 05 October 2003 21:57
		apart from the vision of a bouncing banana By: timmy on Sun, 05 October 2003 16:08
		Re: Something made me weep today By: machelli on Sat, 04 October 2003 21:53
		Re: Something made me weep today By: marc on Sat, 04 October 2003 22:08
		Thanks By: machelli on Sat, 04 October 2003 22:14
		Go and check it out By: timmy on Sat, 04 October 2003 22:16
		Re: Go and check it out By: machelli on Sat, 04 October 2003 22:21
		I keep thinkin' about something Marc said... By: smith on Sun, 05 October 2003 02:11
		Re: I keep thinkin' about something Marc said... By: yourbestgayfriend on Sun, 05 October 2003 02:18
		Re: I keep thinkin' about something Marc said... By: david in hong kong on Sun, 05 October 2003 05:34
		I remember my first day at uni By: nick on Sun, 05 October 2003 08:16
		Re: I remember my first day at uni By: timmy on Sun, 05 October 2003 08:31
		Re: I remember my first day at uni By: yourbestgayfriend on Sun, 05 October 2003 15:13

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