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Location: UK, in Devon
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Of course that means that someone has to sweep up the huge piles of rust from the floor.
We have several teenagers here of whom I am decidedly envious. All of them (forgive the third person) seem comfortable in their emerging sexuality and all seem at ease in their own skins.
I doubt our upbringings were that different, they and I. I know that more than one has had major problems with his father, I don't mean that; I mean the standards of morality, the expectations of family and society, the assumption of heterosexual-ness.
I am just rather happy, even if this is an island, an oasis, that in 2008 they can find what eluded me in 1968, and has eluded me most of my life. And I'm happy that they have groups of folk who, while feeling unable to post here, read here and email and chat to them.
I ws headed off on a ramble, so I'll just not 
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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Yes indeed, Timmy,
Me too (except that I don't make rust when I think!).
As Diamond Jim Brady said somewhere like Cannery Row ( or another of Steinbeck's books) the first step in making friends is to learn to like oneself. When you truly like yourself for what you truly are you are launched and can make friends and maybe, if you are lucky and take your chances, lovers.
And the first step in getting to like oneself is to admit who you are and learn to talk freely about whatever it is about you that you are unsure about.
And some people we know have succeeded rather better than we did!
Love to everyone,
Anthony
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You and I grew up under very similar circumstances with pretty much the same results. And if I were to stumble across an Alladin's lamp I think the one wish I would make would be "I wish I were born today." I can't promise I'd have the courage to make better decisions in my life than I did forty, fifty years ago - but at the least the climate is better and more inductive to making courageous life choices.
Thank God for the many strides made by gay groups and other freedom loving individuals. Thank God for the internet. Thank God for young people of tenacious spirit. Thank God for Timmy.
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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It's a sign of the changing times.
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: Music and Cats." - Albert Schweitzer
It's like Mad Max out here: guys doing guys, girls doing girls, girls turning into guys and doing girls that used to do girls and guys!
- from Alex Truelove
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timmy
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I hope it becomes increasingly universal
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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