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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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We did this with pleasure, and it was some labour for each of us.
His story refers to a camp, a camp which does not exist, exactly, but which had initially a name similar to a programme run in conjunction with the Boy Scouts of America. We were asked with great politeness, and no antu gay bias of any description, if it would be possible to alter the name of the camp in the story
Charlie and I had a pleasant correspondence with the gentleman and agreed that the name of Charlie's camp was not sacrosanct, and could be altered.
Now we have done it I have written to the requestor confirming that it has been done. And I have taken the oppotrunity to ask him, whatever his personal or religious beliefs may be about homosexuality, to seek to ensure that his leadership and mentoring programme trests gay boys and girls precisely the same as heterosexual boys and girls. Not as a "debt", not even out of "honour", but to do so as a fellow human being.
I have asked him to make sure thay gay kids are as safe in his care as str8 kids, and that he "listens to their issues" without taking any action that he woudl not take on behalf of a heterosexual kid.
I have no idea, and have told him I have no idea, whether he already does this. He may refuse. But he may also think while ghe refuses. He may accept the thoughts and do it. Either way we have done ourselves no harm, and may have done some good in getting gay kids accepted too.
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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