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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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We have two people, not one, who feel out of place here, and another who says he is out of place and is actually hugely generous. None of you, none of US is out of place.
The only person who IS out of place wrote to me today as follows: "This site is obviously against the law internationally. The UK, US, and the UN all need to investigate the activities of whomever runs this ill, unacceptable, cruel site. The youth photographed are obviously under legal age for such glamorizing of their sexuality. In other words, YOU ARE EXPLOITING CHILDREN -- AND IT'S A CRIME. Moreover, it is my hope that this site will be terminated." Signed Tpcollege02@aol.com. I am not asking that you write to him, nor that you refrain. If you email flames@iomfats.org you wil see what he received automatically in return anyway.
Tim in the USA feels the need to leave. Kevin has very quietlyt slipped in a not to say "me too". Warren acts with great generosity.
Now look, all of you have the right to feelings. This is a place to feel at home in and to wander in and out whenever it suits you. Comings and goings are comings and goings.
And yes, search engines pick this board up like they pick all messagebaords up. I chose not to inhibit that for one vital reason: Someone who needs to be here may find it that way. We may be as anonymous as we choose here, that has never been an issue.
If you realise later that you have released information that you would prefer to have been private I am able to delete threads. I was unwise with one of my own and deleted it.
To those who object when I say that this is primarily not a political place, please think a little. It is a messageboard on the site of a man who is gay and married with a child. A man who questioned his sexuality all the time and who grew up afraid. Its logical primary purpose is to reach out to and help other people in related situations. By this I mean the kids of the world and the adults those kids have become who have resolved or failed to resolve their sexual issues.
Sure, some of that is political oppression. I never doubted it. I just feel that, political excursions aside, this place must never turn into a general place where we discuss politics, disasters, terrorism. Excet that it does affect us. It does make us emotional. That emotional hurt is relevant to us all, here.
But think a moment.
If someone posted here from Al Quaeda (spelling?) and said "I am terrified. I am gay and caught up in this mega terrorist organisation", what would your first reaction be? To condemn Al Quaeda, or to help the person?
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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