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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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This is something we all need to read.....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49856-2004Sep25.html
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Thanks, Marc!
This is the sort of story which makes me cry.
It's a down to earth and realistic approach to the problems many gay young people face, trying to come to terms with themselves, and then their own families, friends, schoolmates, teachers, preachers etc. Unfortunately, some of them are not so strong and brave as Michael obviously is.
The text is three years old now. Do you think that much has changed since then?
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I've read this twice now.
I wish, oh I wish there had been any sort of support network when I was a kid.
I stood in front of the gathering at my mother's funeral on Friday and wanted to tell them how it was while I was growing up, gay. It was her how, so I didn't. But I wanted to.
When I was a teenager I wanted not to be gay so badly that I denied it to myself. Totally.
Except we were queer back then.
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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thanx marc...
once i started reading i didn't stop. felt like my story.
You don't love someone because they are beautiful, they are beautiful because you love them.
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I was 17 at the end of 1947 when all homosexual acts in the UK were criminal and yet I didn't have it as hard as Michael. I feel really sorry for him - and for everyone who is encouraged to pervert their nature by churches that misinterpret some holy book. The three great religions of the book are repressive of sexual joy and of all variations from what they say is the norm - and of course they are wrong about what the norm is, even about the norm for that 10% of heterosexuals who are low sexed enough to be virgins when they marry.
What I can't understand is why anyone believes in God or follows the tenets of any church; it takes too much effort to suspend disbelief and the tenets are so obviously wrong.
[ ** each end of a word shows italics.]
"I can't believe *that*!" said Alice.
"Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."
Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one *can't* believe impossible things."
"I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
And, of course, Lewis Carroll, who wrote Alice, had to be in Holy Orders in order to teach mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford. [Things have changed, a bit, since the 1860s.]
Anthony
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Benji
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Location: USA
Registered: August 2007
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Thanks Marc, it was a very interesting article, looking forward to the next piece.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I had never put two and two together over the 6 impossible things before breakfast and religion.
However, religion and faith differ. I don't mind people believing in a deity or in water divining. I don't mind whether homoeopathy works or doesn't. But I care passionately that those who have a faith do not seek to force me into their faith and I mind very strongly if they seek to rule my life by their beliefs.
But, as a paradox, where I have, by electing a representative to enact laws for me, created rules of my society which I con]sent to obey by living there, I also live within those laws, though I may seek to change them democratically.
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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>The text is three years old now. Do you think that much has changed since then?
Also, the article ended with "Tomorrow: Michael's search for peace." Well obviously the article wasn't continued here. If anyone can find the continuation piece would you please post the url here? Thanks. This is something I will download and save forever. Thank you Marc.
Youth crisis hot-line 866-488-7386, 24 hr (U.S.A.)
There are people who want to help you cope with being you.
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Benji
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Location: USA
Registered: August 2007
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Thank-you very much for posting this, very interesting and moving. Are there anymore articles?
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796
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Just perhaps this quiet, brave boy will be the catalyst the USA needs to turn upon the imbecilic and ludicrous Phelps
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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