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You've only mentioned your mother briefly. She was accepting of you but unable to understand that she needed to protect you.
How did she cope with losing you?
How did she cope with meeting again?
How did you cope with meeting again?
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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Hermes wrote:
> I know what you are going to say... .she allowed you to stay with a man, knowing you were in the sex trade?
Well, no. I think I'd have been a concerned parent enough to be worried about your health, but the sex trade / man side hadn't entered my head. I would have wanted to be sure that he was not having a hold of some sort over you. I'd have asked you to come home, and I'd have cried when you said no, probably in front of you.
But there is no way I could have asked the others to leave so you could come back. And I think I'd have had trouble still understanding the real fear you had of your brother.
Now why did you think I'd ask that question?
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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Hahahaha. Well, I must be the only one out of step 
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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I simply could not see how "man" and "sex trade" were linked. People stigmatise sex workers and put them into their own little pigeonholes. You lived with a man. That man had helped you off the streets. That bit is patently good.
The real concern is whether the man has power over you.
Gay and living with a man, that's more difficult for a parent of a teenager. We assume automatically that it is unlikely for a boy to want an older woman, and thus we make an even stringer assumption with a man. I make that assumption myself because I( am not attracted to people of my own age today, let alone as a teenager. We also do not anticipate knowing that our kids are sexually active.
None of that relates to the sex trade, though.
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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