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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I was just speaking to Brody. We were having a disgust fest over The Lot Project and the asswipe who set it up. And we spoke, pretty much simultaneously about hoping to save just one kid from self harm.
In the last 18 months I have suddenly felt free to become a gay rights activist in my non nom de plume life, in my real world, with my friends who know my name, with my family. I feel safe to do this, late in life for sure, because of those who have gone before me. They are the ones who took greater risks that I take in order to bring us out of the closet into the mainstream.
Their deeds, they will say, were nothing much. But, their deeds gave me the courage to be myself. And my hope is that my small deeds, my own 'nothing much' will give even one person the courage to be himself or herself.
And that is why this forum, while it will naturally have pockets of cosiness, will never be 100% cosy, will always be challenging something, will always be campaigning. And it is why I will always call this war we are fighting a war. And it is why I will always fight hard against those who try to use semantics to gainsay it.
My objective is to save just one kid from self harm. And, when I have saved him, to save another. And to hope that those kids save one kid themselves, and those kids save one themselves.
Those of us who have the ability to do so will continue to fight this war. We will wrote letters to all relevant people, we will sign petitions in case this one actually does something, we will write opinion pieces on small blogs, we will use Twitter and Facebook in our own, real names to push not a gay agenda, but a human rights agenda.
And we will continue to care, here, for those who come here for such small help as we are able to give them.
I know that I have managed to keep one suicidal teenager, a heterosexual kid who hated homosexuals, a lad who had been abused from the age of six until he was 14 by the same man, a friend of the family, alive from the age of 16 or so until he was over 21. I last met him online when I heard he was married. I know of others helped here. I know of three door breakdowns we have caused across the world when someone here made suicidal statements here or in chats. I organised one myself in the UK.
That's what we do.
I know that not everyone can do that because they feel incapable in some way. I'm not saying that everyone should. I'd love it if all of us could, but I know we can't.
But what I want you to understand is why I do it. And I want you to understand the primary purpose of the entire site alongside the messageboard.
This site may have erotic tales. But there is no tale without true affection here. Not one, even if, at first sight, some look peculiar. The site is to show gay kids and the adults they become that pure, simple, romantic love is available to queer kids.
The cozy parts in the forum are great. But they are not its primary purpose.
[Updated on: Wed, 29 September 2010 23:27]
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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