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I've been scanning old 35mm slides  [message #55219] Thu, 01 January 2009 23:55 Go to previous message
timmy

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We got a scanner for Christmas. We bought ourselves a 'house present'.

The thing is, I find some of the pictures very upsetting. They show an 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 year old boy who was "just an ordinary kid", though brought up in the rather austere regime of the 1950s and early 1960s.

He looks happy, untroubled, a normal boy.

I look at this boy and wonder how my parents can have made me so frightened that I couldn't tell them when the sky fell on me at 13 and I fell in love with a boy. I was so very afraid of what they would do to me.

He wasn't a 'good boy', nor especially naughty. He was just an ordinary little kid, confidently expecting to be heterosexual, and so needing his parents to help him.

I have not shed a tear for either of them after their deaths, but, just somehow, the anger I have seems to be the grief I have. These people should not have had children.


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
 
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